[BusyBox] default config for ifup???

[Uwe Beutin]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Steven Scholz wrote:

> The above mentioned way reads the config from 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 then tries to use udhcpc to get an IP 
> and if that fails it uses values in  /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 
> to configure the interface.
> 
> Now, if I have an /etc/network/interfaces like
> 
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
> address 10.0.9.153
> netmask 255.255.0.0
> network 10.0.0.0
> broadcast 10.0.255.255
> 
> and use "sbin/ifup eth0" it will try to use dhcp and if it fails it just give up!
> 
> So I am not sure what you meant.

Well, if you'd change your script and then get the failed exit code from
ifup you could just call "ifup eth1". But the way I see it, if dhcp 
fails, eht0 gets initialized with the IP config that is stated in 
ifcfg-eth0 anyway?!

Am I wrong?! Or didn't I correctly understand the problem? :)

	Uwe