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On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:44:42 -0700 |
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Lord Sauron <lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Proof: |
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> lsauron@the-dark-tower:~$ grep -nr "dhclient" ./archival |
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> lsauron@the-dark-tower:~$ |
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> I have been getting annoyed at dhcpcd, which will take 180 seconds to |
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> ping even if there isn't a networking cable in my NIC. I use a laptop, |
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> so you can easily speculate how I got so annoyed. |
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> I know that Kubuntu had the ability to detect whether there was a cable |
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> in my laptop and ping accordingly. I looked at my Kubuntu workstation |
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> and found that it's using dhclient. I installed dhcpd on my laptop and |
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> tried my best to make it work. I got the following: |
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[snip] |
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Well, maybe I just misunderstood you, anyway... You could try pump |
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(the fastest/best dhcp client I know of :-) and ifplug, the latter |
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starts the wired ethernet interfaces when they get a link. |
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PPS. |
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The iface_eth interface is completely out of date, take a _very_ good |
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look at `/etc/conf.d/net.example'. |
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Greets, |
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Jan-Hendrik Zab |
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| Jan-Hendrik Zab |
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