On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Laptops are often in many different environement, and automatically launching > network at boot often implies at least delays (specially with DHCP) and even > errors when no effective connection is available. However, many programms > (especially KDE) seems to need the loopback to work properly. > So i'd like to have a distinct service for loopback, or any other way to > launch loopback inconditionaly at boot, while being able to configure other > network connections in a more selective way.
I have been meaining to play with ifplugd, which is a tool which will start an interface when a cable is plugged in, and drop it when it is removed. It requires you to not have the interfaces started automatically by the network service, but it will do it at boot if you are connected anyway. In theory at least. If we were to get this working right, iit would be nice to either 1)use this by default 2)have a gui option for it. THe only problem then is that some daemons might need HUP'ing (or worse), I don't know if 'ifup eth0' does anything in this regard? http://freshmeat.net/projects/ifplugd/ I have source some where, just haven't gotten around to trying it. I think the biggest work will be testing the cards and drivers. I can test ne2000, 8139too and 3c589_cs. Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
