Pekka Savola (pekkas(a)netcore.fi) said:
When designing an IPv6 extension to initscripts, we came across this
one
particularly knotty problem.
There seem to be no way to select the order in which the interfaces would
be brought up by e.g. "network start", except by naming hacks. (There are
also this, nowadays smaller, problem of on-demand dial-up interfaces..)
Correct, the only constraints made on ordering are by device type.
Otherwise it ends up being alphabetical.
There seems to be no facility to run a script "in the second
pass" i.e.,
after all the interfaces have been brought up.
Both of these facilities would seem to be useful, espcially being able to
say "run these commands after interface X has been brought up".
There's /sbin/ifup-local.
Bill