ignore some specific interfaces, such as non-hotpluggable eth*, ipsec*

[Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>]

Hi,

I've received some bug reports or wish requests to ignore some
specific network interfaces, such as non-hotpluggable eth* or ipsec*.
David Engel <david@debian.org>, submitter of Bug#132224, suggests
the following patch.

--- net.agent.orig      Mon Jan 14 11:25:25 2002
+++ net.agent   Sun Feb  3 14:54:51 2002
@@ -25,6 +25,13 @@
     exit 1
 fi
 
+case $INTERFACE in
+    # interfaces that should be ignored altogether
+    ipsec*)  
+       exit 0
+       ;;
+esac
+
 case $ACTION in
 register)
 
Although, I think pattern "ipsec*" should be configurable in
/etc/default/hotplug (or /etc/sysconfig/hotplug on RedHat, maybe),
does it make sense to apply such patch to net.agent?

Thanks,
Fumitoshi UKAI

PS.
See more detail, look at http://bugs.debian.org/hotplug
 #108857: hotplug should not invoke ifup ethX for built in interfaces
 #132224: hotplug should ignor ipsec interfaces

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