I have been looking in the scripts for interface management, in an effort to kick off a script of my own on any "significant network event" (I will qualify that in a bit)
I managed to add a check to tell netplugd to run my script every time there is a hot-plug event. Now I need to make it so my script is also kicked off on a 'service network restart' or simply an 'ifup ethX'... which seemed doable to me...
Looking in the ifup script, I saw the ifup-eth script get kicked off, from there, the ifup-post script, to the ifup-local script (which doesn't exist, so isn't run)... stupid me, I made the assumption that "post" meant "after", and instead of seeing my script run, I see messages like "arping: recvfrom: Network is down" (arping is being called from my script)
btw - the first exec of my script happens *after* the interfaces are raised, but only because I do it via the boot-order rc3.d script-list
Any idea how I can make my script *actually* kick off after the interface is *actually* up?
I've got an issue with a VMWare server running RHEL 6.3 that has dual E1000 NICs. I have configured the cards as I would normally do in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts as ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1. I can execute ifup eth0 and bring the interface up quite happily, however when I execute ifup eth1 it... (2 Replies)
hi there
the ethernet wire was out of the pc when the system started.
#ifconfig
#ifconfig -a
i did not get any ip for eth0.
i plug the cable into the pc
#ifdown eth0
#ifup eth0
now the ip address is assigned to eth0
Question is : IS this right way to bring ethernet down... (2 Replies)
I have a little script in the /etc/network/if-up.d (debian). It should do something and write the output to a log file. But it doesn't seem to work.
ifup wlan0 dosomething >> /var/log/dosomething.log
I would like to add the date to the output, can somebody help me please?
Thanks! (6 Replies)
IFSCHEME(8) Commands IFSCHEME(8)NAME
ifscheme - scheme control for network interfaces
SYNOPSIS
ifscheme [-v] [[-s] newscheme]
mapping <interface> script ifscheme-mapping
DESCRIPTION
ifscheme allows you to change network configuraton schemes or query the current scheme. It integrates with the ifup(8) command and inter-
faces(5). For example, you might use this program to configure a "home" scheme and a "work" scheme for a network device on a laptop. When
you move between home and work, a simple command can reconfigure your networking.
If you run the program with no parameters, it will tell what the current network scheme is.
The ifscheme-mapping utility is used to tell the ifup and ifdown utilities about the current scheme.
OPTIONS -v
--verbose
Run in verbose mode. This is passed in to the ifup and ifdown programs as well.
-l
--list list all schemes available/defined in /etc/network/interfaces.
newscheme
-s newscheme
--scheme newscheme
Change to a new network configuration scheme. When the scheme is changed, network interfaces that were using the old scheme will be
taken down and brought back up to use the new configuration scheme. -s or --scheme are mandatory if newscheme begins with a -.
CONFIGURATION
To make the program do anything useful when a scheme is selected, you must edit /etc/network/interfaces to add a mapping for the interface
(or interfaces) that can be controlled on a per-scheme basis. Suppose you want to control eth0 in this way. You might have an existing eth0
configuraton in there, such as:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.5
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
To change this so you can chose between static routing and dhcp, replace it with the following (it helps to ifdown the interface first).
auto eth0
mapping eth0
script ifscheme-mapping
iface eth0-home inet static
address 192.168.1.5
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
iface eth0-work inet dhcp
Now if you run "ifscheme home" and ifup the interface, you'll get the eth0-home configuration stanza. If you run "ifscheme work", it will
be changed to the eth0-work stanza. You can add additional stanzas as desired, but the label must always be of the form <hardware inter-
face>-<scheme name>.
If you have a second interface (perhaps a wireless network card on eth1), you can duplicate the above for that interface, changing the eth0
and the configuration details as appropriate, but remember to add an iface stanza for every scheme name for the second interface.
FILES
/etc/network/interfaces
the interfaces definition file
/etc/network/run/scheme
the current scheme
/etc/network/run/ifstate
a record of the current state of the interfaces, managed by ifup and ifdown
BUGS
All schemed interfaces will have the same scheme.
Any schemed interface which does not have an entry for the current scheme and is not configured when the scheme is changed will not be suc-
cessfully configured when it is brought up.
SEE ALSO interfaces(5)ifup(8)ifdown(8)DISTRIBUTION
Redistribution is subject to the GNU public license.
AUTHORS
Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>, Peter Wilson <pwilson@cs.hmc.edu>
IFSCHEME(8)