Henri wrote:
Hi, I upgraded from 9.0 to 8.1 rc2. My notebook is dynamically configured when i'm linked to the lan via dhclient. When i'm not connected, i don't want dhclient to wait too long for the dhcp server response. That's why i have added a shorter timeout in dhclient.conf.
Does you NIC not support ifplugd?
What is this ? I don't know anything about it.
If it does, that is even better, and should work out-the-box. The installer should know which ones don't (may be your case), and in that case will try bring up dhcp anyway. You can check with :
# ifstatus -v
it answers unplugged when i'm unplugged...great !
while you are plugged and, and while you are plugged out, to see if it can tell or not.
The problem is that after the upgrade, this option does not have any effect anymore (even if dhclient.conf has not been overridden) !! It's now waiting for arround one minute before going on booting without network !!! HOw to explain that the config file is ignored ?
# urpme dhcp-client
In the same kind of problem, how to unactivate zeroconf ? Why having a bootp/dhcpd/zeroconf option ?! there should be a first choice "zeroconf or not ?" and then a second one (if you have choosen no zeroconf at first question) asking static or dhcp ? Am I wrong ?
add in /etc/sysconfig/network: NOZEROCONF="yes"
this does not work. I made a service network stop, ifdown eth0, ifdown "eth0:9".
then added what you said to the config file and while i'm NOT connected i enter service network restart. It looks for a dhcp server, does not find it of course and...create a zeroconf interface "eth0:9" with ipadress = 169.254.xxx.xxx (don"t remember the end...) and the associated defaut route.
any idea ?
I think you are correct. There could also be test such as "if you are in a Windows network using a domain name ending in .local, you should disbale zeroconf". This would also set tmdns not to run. See these bugs:
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2829 http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2265
Note that apparently the default Win2k AD setup is to use the .local tld, and that users should be setting the Win2k dhcp server to do DNS registrations for clients that don't do their own, in which case tmdns and zeroconf are not necessary.
Regards, Buchan
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