[ILUG] Ubuntu networking questions

[Stephen Shirley]

Niall O Broin wrote:
> On 22 Feb 2006, at 10:07, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
>> up is synonymous with post-up and down is synonymous with pre-down :)
> 
> Thanks - be nice if that were documented in, say, the interfaces man page.

It is... Here's a summary of the relevant part of the manpage:

-----------------------------8<-----------------------
pre-up command
	[..desc of pre-up..]

up command

post-up command
	[..desc of up/post-up..]

down command

pre-down command
	[..desc of down/pre-down..]

post-down command
	[..desc of post-down..]
----------------------------->8-----------------------

If multiple options are listed in a row, with only the last having a
description, then by convention they're synonyms.

Steve