Thanks for the confirmation Ben. Glad to know I'm not going insane. --- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay I've figured this out and it has nothing to do > with 2 interfaces... > It has nothing to do with not getting addresses on > the interfaces... > Even if I go in with a rescue disk and set both of > the interfaces to not > boot at startup it still hangs on that startup > script. > > When you configure network settings you are given an > option to configure > a dialup account. If you configure a dialup account > then it will ask > you if you want the "connection to startup at boot." > It should be > asking "Do you want the dialup connection to start > at boot." Of course > this option might apply to other types of > connections (ISDN for example) > I haven't tested that. No matter what the message > is deceiving. Of > course I have to wonder how many people want to > dialup on bootup anyway. > > Basically when you choose this option it makes a > script called: > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/net_cnx_up > > which all it does is run: ifup ppp0 > > (oddly enough the internet script passes a > --boot_time param to it which > it does nothing with). > > On top of this the script shouldn't hang if it can't > dialout. > > It looks like eventually it starts ppp-watch which > apparently is > supposed to timeout if it gets a "boot" parameter. > Which it isn't > getting. But even if I run it by hand and pass it > that parameter (or > modify the scripts) it still doesn't seem to be > working right. > > I'd guess this is an issue with x86 as well, so I'm > copying this to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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