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List:       openembedded-devel
Subject:    [oe] Busybox ifupdown usage
From:       trini () embeddedalley ! com (Tom Rini)
Date:       2009-07-28 19:27:26
Message-ID: 20090728192725.GN13724 () smtp ! west ! cox ! net
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 04:24:38PM -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:

> Busybox has the following warning about using ifupdown:
> 
> http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/docs/ifupdown_design.txt
> 
> AFAICS, ifupdown from Busybox is used in most of the images. Are there any 
> concerns? How valid is the warning above?

In all 5 defconfigs for 1.13.2 FEATURE_IFUPDOWN_EXTERNAL_DHCP is
disabled and UDHCPC is enabled.  So yes, if busybox ifupdown is used
rather than the ifupdown package (and I don't see runtime update
alternatives magic in ifupdown_0.6.8.bb) only udhcpc is going to be a
working client.  It's probably luck then that people either use busybox
or they use not-busybox and some other dhcp client and real ifupdown.

-- 
Tom Rini



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