Re: [Bluez-users] Setting up an hotplug connection with USB dongles

[Rainer Dorsch <rdorsch@web.de>]

Am Sonntag, 2. Januar 2005 14:58 schrieb Marcel Holtmann:
> Hi Rainer,
>
> > > add a line with "auto bnep0" and it will bring up your interface when
> > > it is available.
> >
> > From man interfaces
> >
> > Stanzas beginning with the word "auto" are used to identify the physical
> > interfaces to be brought up when ifup is run with the -a option.  (This
> > option  is  used  by  the system boot scripts.)  Physical interface names
> > should follow the word "auto" on the same line.  There can be multiple
> > "auto" stanzas.  ifup brings the named interfaces up in the order listed.
> >
> > From the ifup manpage
> >
> >       -a, --all
> >               If given to ifup, affect all interfaces marked auto. 
> > Interfaces are brought up in the order in  which  they  are  defined  in 
> > /etc/net- work/interfaces.  If given to ifdown, affect all interfaces.
> > Interfaces are brought down in the order in which they are currently
> > listed in the state file.
>
> if you use "auto bnep0" and hotplug is configured to deal also with the
> network interface then bnep0 will be brought up at the time the kernel
> created it. No need to run ifup/ifdown manually.

Hmm....do I enable that with in /etc/default/hotplug

# NET_AGENT_POLICY
# - how to manage network interfaces with ifupdown? 'all', 'auto' or 'hotplug'
NET_AGENT_POLICY=hotplug

?

Thanks,
Rainer

>
> Regards
>
> Marcel
>
>
>
>
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