Re: Ethernet cable check

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On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:58:39PM +0100, Roman Maeder wrote:
> init.d/network greps for "ONBOOT=no" and if it finds it, skips the
> interface. My new version no longer contains this substring, so it seems to
> work, but I wonder whether there isn't a more standard solution.

If I remember right, there used to be some trickery in the init scripts to
do just this, but it turns out to not be reliable with all network cards /
drivers, causing worse problems than it solves.

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