Spanning tree and NFS
For the record, the fact that Debian’s startup tends to fail in the presence of smart switches that try to do spanning-tree detection gets really annoying when you have production machines that depend on NFS servers being available.
Technically, this would be solvable by building a proper hosts file on each server, but that’s what DNS is for.
So, I’m going to try a script like this on each server during the startup sequence, to try to delay the startup until the default gateway comes up:
