On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Vladimir Mosgalin
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>  On 2011.10.12 at 18:28:02 -0700, jdow wrote next:
>
>> >>  Is it possible under SL6.1 to run a script (or insert commands in
>> >>ifcfg-ethX files) when a nic is up, immediatly after network script
>> >>runs?? Like for example it can do with debian/ubuntu: post-up
>> >>post-down.
>> >
>> >/sbin/ifup-pre-local and /sbin/ifdown-pre-local are executed (if exist)
>> >before bringing interface up&  down
>> >
>> >/sbin/ifup-local and /sbin/ifup-local are executed (if exist) after
>> >bringing interface up&  down and setting up routes.
>> >
>> >Argument to each will be interface name. Note that if you have aliases,
>> >this script will be called for each alias.
>>
>> OK, I have such a file that I still have to manually run when the system
>> reboots. I get no error messages nor is the file run.
>>
>> # ls --lcontext /sbin/ifup-local
>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0       root root 329 Jul 25
>> 13:30 /sbin/ifup-local
>
> Is your network setup managed by "network" service or NetworkManager? If
> later, I don't think it cares about these local scripts at all..
>
> If you are using "network", try to find out if it runs or not by putting
> something simple inside, like
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "$@" > /tmp/ifup-local-test
>
> If you need NetworkManager, I don't think I can give any advice on how
> to make it work when NM manages network..

For NM, you can use "/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/" (never tried it myself).