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On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 15:04 +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: |
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> I'm trying it on a laptop that connects to various different networks |
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> depending on the weather. I figured this would be a useful test as |
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> it's a less common configuration. It connects mostly via different |
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> docking stations. I use udev to rename ethernet devices according to |
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> MAC address (the ethernet devices are in the docking stations). |
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> Hotplug then runs the appropriately named network script via net.agent |
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> to start the service. Critically, the various net.* scripts are |
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> therefore -not- in any runlevel. |
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> This hotplugging of the network devices all kicks off early on - well |
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> before the boot level has finished. The new /sbin/runscript.sh simply |
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> drops the addition of the network device if the boot level hasn't |
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> finished - leaving me with no network (or at least, a network that has |
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> to be started manually). For now, I've commented out the check in |
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> /sbin/runscript.sh, and it all works ok. I don't know what this will |
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> break; obviously the check wasn't added just for laughs! |
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emerge ifplugd and get that to monitor your interfaces. It will bring |
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them up/down when a cable is inserted/removed. |
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You'll probably have to tell it to not fail if the interfaces don't |
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exist as you're using udev to rename them. |
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A better solution would be to allow configuration via MAC address, which |
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we may put into baselayout-1.12.0 |
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> On a somewhat related matter, I have bluetooth stuff installed, which |
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> is also started by hotplug/pcmcia. In order to prevent it being |
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> stopped by changing runlevels, I've made a softlink to net.bluetooth |
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> and started that in my hotplug config instead of 'bluetooth'. Bit of |
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> a hack, relying on the fact /sbin/rc does not automatically stop |
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> anything that begins with "net.". Is there a tidier way to prevent |
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> /sbin/rc from messing with services started & stopped via hotplug? |
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Try experimenting with the RC_STRICT_NET_CHECKING in /etc/conf.d/rc |
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Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o> |
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