On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 07:25:23PM -0500, Justin Hagemeier wrote: > > Well I sort of do this already I have a laptop that has the Potato distro > > on it, I use both ethernet and ppp, > > I am using the DHCP client in potato and it works great; if there is no > > ethernet connection, then no IP is assigned > > to the eth0 interface, essentially no route. I just use PPP normal. > > -- > > *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 > > *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 > > *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ > > -------------------------------------- > > - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > How do you get over the problem with dhcp(potato) hanging when there is no > net connection? I don't it does not hang on my system, it does try to configure it's self, but does not hang.
>dhcpcd just sits there if it cannot find one. (or at least I have never been >patient enough to wait it out, I give it about 30 s> and give up) just >installing both would be great for now if that worked. At least on my system it does work, kinda cludgy but it works. You can always take the card out. > > Although, I would like a scheme where it starts the right daemon because it > could potentially less time and memory than starting both. Jens you are > right about error trapping kernel message would be brain dead. However > ifconfig STDOUT does give you how many packets are received, if you sent 1 > and did not receive any in reply the > you have a smarter way of knowing whether or not you have a live line. You > could use regex to parse that ifconfig STDOUT in the script. I am reaching > here.:-) I think, that the DHCP, should time out, after a arbitrary amount of configuration requests, like 100 or so. A more elegant solution must be out there; I know that 95/98/NT have this problem also, so it's not easy. > > What do you think? > > Thanks, > haggs > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -------------------------------------- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - -
