That would be really useful. At present I start my laptop up with the interface down and bring it up manually with "ifup eth0".
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 06 September 2002 11:21
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Cooker] DHCP timeout and notebooks
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 10:47, Florin wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Fox) writes:
>
> > Reposted from Mandrake Forum - I agree with this one (if it's not
> > too
> > late!!) It is VERY annoying on a notebook when starting without a
> > network connection to wait for the dhcp timeout . . .
> >
> >
> > > Tired and very incoherent when I submitted this feature request
> > > last time. Here it is again.
> > >
> > > Could we have the ethX devices checked for an actual link before
> > > trying to bring up the interface? Using 'mii-tool' you can check
> > > the link status of an ethernet port to determine things like
> > > whether or not you have a live network drop hooked up to it. This
> > > would help laptop users that have built in ethernet devices but
> > > choose not to hook them up one time or another. Basically, if
> > > there isn't a link, skip the interface to avoid dhcpcd timing out.
> > > :)
> > >
> > > Please comment folks, would there ever be a time this was a bad
> > > idea?
>
> Hello there,
>
>
> so you would suggest to add some sort of mii-tool test in the
> /sbin/ifup script ?
>
That's exactly the suggestion!
> have a nice day,
> --
> Florin http://www.mandrakesoft.com
> http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~florin/
>
Have a nice weekend!
--
Robert
