ifcfg-* files vanishing

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu May 24 20:54:23 UTC 2007


Steve Hill (steve at nexusuk.org) said: 
> >Maybe. This isn't new behavior, it's been that way in all Fedora releases.
> 
> The same never happened on my old notebook which had a cardbus 802.11 card 
> - unplugging the card didn't result in the configuration being wiped.  I 
> haven't tried a previous distribution on the machine I'm currently testing 
> on since it's a brand new machine though.

cardbus/pcmcia devices are considered 'still present' if they disappear;
kill-switch devices don't have a flag that say 'I can disappear at
any time'. :/

Bill




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