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From: Nivedita Singhvi <nsnix@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: RE: new /etc/xen/network script
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 04:43:13 -0700
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	Edwin" <edwin.zhai@intel.com>, James Bulpin <James.Bulpin@cl.cam.ac.uk>
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Ian Pratt wrote:

> I thought it might be an old address from when it was eth0 getting
> resurected, hence the line I added. I wander if 'ifconfig ${netdev}
> 0.0.0.0 down' would work better?

One of the advantages to using the ifup/ifdown distro interface
manipulation scripts is to also have them take care of the other
things (radvd restart, ipv6, ipsec issues, ifup/down*local* scripts
which might be doing other things when interfaces go up and down).
We aren't taking care of a lot of the other subsystems here, and
I see the advantage in using the system configuration scripts
as far as possible. The ifconfig line above would work in most
cases, though, works for me ;).

thanks,
Nivedita