Index: init.d/shutdown.sh
===================================================================
--- init.d/shutdown.sh	(revision 1645)
+++ init.d/shutdown.sh	(working copy)
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 # Copyright 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
-/sbin/halt -ihdp
+opts="-hdp"
+[[ ${RC_DOWN_INTERFACE:-yes} == "yes" ]] && opts="${opts}i"
 
+/sbin/halt "${opts}"
+
 # hmm, if the above failed, that's kind of odd ...
 # so let's force a halt
 /sbin/halt -f
Index: etc/conf.d/rc
===================================================================
--- etc/conf.d/rc	(revision 1645)
+++ etc/conf.d/rc	(working copy)
@@ -35,6 +35,12 @@
 
 RC_AUTO_INTERFACE="no"
 
+# RC_DOWN_INTERFACE allows you to specify if RC will bring the interface
+# compeletly down when it stops. The default is yes, but there are some
+# instances where you may not want this to happen.
+
+RC_DOWN_INTERFACE="yes"
+
 # RC_VOLUME_ORDER allows you to specify, or even remove the volume setup
 # for various volume managers (MD, EVMS2, LVM, DM, etc).  Note that they are
 # stopped in reverse order.
Index: init.d/net.lo
===================================================================
--- init.d/net.lo	(revision 1645)
+++ init.d/net.lo	(working copy)
@@ -707,7 +707,8 @@
 		interface_del_addresses "${i}"
 
 		# Do final shut down of this alias
-		if ! ${IN_BACKGROUND}; then
+		if [[ ${IN_BACKGROUND} != "true" \
+			&& ${RC_DOWN_INTERFACE} == "yes" ]]; then
 			ebegin "Shutting down ${i}"
 			interface_iface_stop "${i}"
 			eend "$?"
Index: etc/conf.d/net.example
===================================================================
--- etc/conf.d/net.example	(revision 1645)
+++ etc/conf.d/net.example	(working copy)
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@
 #	# Test for link on the interface prior to bringing it up.  This
 #	# only works on some network adapters and requires the mii-diag
 #	# package to be installed.
-#	if mii-tool ${IFACE} 2> /dev/null | grep -q 'no link'; then
+#	if mii-tool "${IFACE}" 2> /dev/null | grep -q 'no link'; then
 #		ewarn "No link on ${IFACE}, aborting configuration"
 #		return 1
 #	fi 
@@ -627,11 +627,12 @@
 #	# Test for link on the interface prior to bringing it up.  This
 #	# only works on some network adapters and requires the ethtool
 #	# package to be installed.
-#	if ethtool ${IFACE} | grep -q 'Link detected: no'; then
+#	if ethtool "${IFACE}" | grep -q 'Link detected: no'; then
 #		ewarn "No link on ${IFACE}, aborting configuration"
 #		return 1
 #	fi
 #
+#
 #	# Remember to return 0 on success
 #	return 0
 #}
@@ -658,8 +659,11 @@
 #}
 
 #postdown() {
-#	# This function is mostly here for completeness... I haven't
-#	# thought of anything nifty to do with it yet ;-)
+#	# Enable Wake-On-LAN for the interface
+#	# Probably a good idea to set RC_DOWN_INTERFACE="no" in /etc/conf.d/rc
+#	# as well ;)
+#	ethtool -s "${IFACE}" wol g
+#
 #	# Return 0 always
 #	return 0
 #}