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I have a computer with both a wired and wireless network card. At home I |
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use the wired connection, but when out I use the wireless. |
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Normally, I use the default net.eth0 for my wired connection, and my own |
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script for wireless : |
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ifconfig eth1 up |
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iwconfig eth1 essid "foo" |
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dhcpcd eth1 |
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If I enable them both using rc-update, then if one isn't available (I |
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only plug in the wired network when I know wireless is not available) |
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the init process will wait until the dhcpcd times out, which is quite |
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long (and it needs to be, because some access points seem to take a |
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long time). |
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Is there some way I can have dhcpcd to run in the background, and to |
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provide an IP address to my interface when it gets a response from the |
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server? I seem to remember busybox had script that did this; is there a |
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general solution? |
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Thanks, |
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Michael |
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