#2185: Check carrier status in DHCP client scripts
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: future
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: network |
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Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
For wired connections, checking the carrier status works. For wireless
connections, the carrier or "up" status is mostly useless. On one of my
ethernet cards, the kernel driver doesn't update the carrier status. I
have a bug open in the kernel bugzilla, but it hasn't been addressed.
In that case, the carrier is always 1, so there wouldn't be any regression
as the network scripts would just carry on as they do now. Still, I think
it would need some wider testing from people with various cards.
I think we should just put this in after 6.3 and let people report on how
it works for them.
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