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On 8/16/06, Mike Williams <mike@××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Hey, |
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> I installed ifplug a *long* time ago on this laptop, and it worked |
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> perfectly. |
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> After upgrading to the new baselayout I saw it had built in support for |
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> ifplug |
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> and netplug. |
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> Great I thought, I'll let it handle it. So I reinstalled ifplug to put all |
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> the |
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> config back to default, and update it. |
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> Now it doesn't work very well. |
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> Well, it works, dhcpcd is stopped when the cable is unplugged, and started |
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> again when it's plugged back in. But the interface is never actually |
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> brought |
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> down, and that's my problem, I *want* the interface brought *down*. |
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> Why? IPv6. If the interface isn't brought up, stateless autoconfiguration |
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> doesn't work. |
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> For all my fiddling with ifplugd and netplug, I can't get either to work |
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> how |
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> ifplugd used to. |
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> I've tried using ifplugd as both a deamon with modules=( "!plug" ), and |
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> letting baselayout handle it fully. |
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> I've messed about with the API ifplugd uses. |
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> Nothing. |
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> Does anyone know how I can get it to work properly? |
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> Ta |
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> Oh, and it would be nice if it could pause the interface, rather than stop |
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> it, |
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> but that's easily hacked in. |
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> Mike Williams |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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> Mike, |
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Sorry i have neevr used ifplug, but i did have very good luck with |
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NetworkManager from Gentopia, https://gentopia.gentooexperimental.org/ iknow |
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it brings the interfaces down like you wanted. |
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Cynyr |
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