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List:       mandrake-cooker
Subject:    Re: [Cooker] [Bug 13299] [initscripts] NEEDINFO: ifup blocks booting
From:       Guillaume Rousse <Guillaume.Rousse () inria ! fr>
Date:       2005-01-31 22:12:55
Message-ID: 41FEAD67.3070206 () inria ! fr
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Frederik Himpe wrote:
> On Monday 31 January 2005 21:49, danny@mailmij.org wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, it was written:
>>
>>>User ID: 115, 16 bugs reported (6 fixed, 2 duplicate, 2 invalid), 148
>>>comments.
>>>
>>>http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13299
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>------- Additional Comments From guillomovitch@mandrake.org  2005-01-31
>>>21:00 ------- The problem is that the wired interface becomes the default
>>>route, because of ifmetric values, wether a cable is plugged or not. And
>>>packets have troubles using an unplugged ethernet interface... Just using
>>>ifplugd solve the issue.
>>
>>another problem is that currently, it tries to wget some html file over
>>the dead connection, which eventually times out. But this is another bug
>>(of which i forget the number).
> 
> 
> What about the case of a cable being connected, but no DHCP-server can be 
> reached (because it's down or because you simply connected to a network 
> without DHCP server)? There it hangs too for half a minute...
> 
We are speaking abount fixed-IP interfaces here, that are currently 
excluded from using ifplugd. DHCP interfaces always use ifplugd.

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