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Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Patch to net-tools to allow mii-tool to activate/deactive interfaces based on medi
From:       "William M. Brack" <wbrack () mmm ! com ! hk>
Date:       2002-12-16 9:07:04
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This would be very useful for my installation on an IBM T30. 
Currently I have change the timeout for dhcp, and modify the
net.ethx script to return "success" when timeout occurs.  Ugly.

Bill
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> The following bug has been submitted (my me)
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7994
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> that allows a network interface to be started and stopped based on
> the the  media status. Basically when you plug in the network
> cable, the interface is  started, when you disconnect, it is
> stopped. This is very nice for laptops  with built in NICs and I'm
> sure in other cases.
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> The developer assigned to this bug has requested email on the
> lists for people  who would like this functionality before it will
> be added to portage. If you  would like to see this patch added,
> please reply to this message.
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> Thanks!
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