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On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 17:11, christoph@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> New ebuild for a dhcp package. Recommended by Jon Nelson. |
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> This is the right(tm) way of doing dhcp. dhcp events trigger scripts. The |
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> current dhcpcd package is not doing that so that we have a braindead |
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> implementation of dhcp right now: |
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> Current situatiom: |
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> If a dhcp server is not available then |
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> the boot process hangs and then timeouts and proceeds without networking. |
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> If I now fix the dhcp server then gentoo will not recognize that an IP is |
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> now available. Reboot is necessary to activate dhcp again. |
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Why not just restart the interface? eg: |
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/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart |
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Troy Dack |
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http://linuxserver.tkdack.com http://gentoo.tkdack.com |
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"You can't survive by sucking the juice from a wet mitten." |
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-- Charles Schulz, "Things I've Had to Learn Over and |
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Over and Over" |
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