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On Saturday 03 August 2002 15:36, Troy Dack wrote: |
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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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I myself wrote a hack that gets the old ip-address from the cache and |
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temporary installs it as the ip-address (my machine has a "static" address, |
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but lately the cable network has been unstable). This way the machine will |
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function well in case of network problems. Maybe such an "optional" hack |
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could also be included in the boot scripts of udhcp. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Junior Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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