Am Freitag, den 17.02.2006, 09:29 +0100 schrieb Marco Calviani: > Hi list, > i would like to share a problem that i'm encountering in dealing > with two net interfaces. I've a "normal" ethernet device (eth0) and a > wireless ipw2200 one (eth1). > > 1) i would like to have, at boot, a situation in which first of all > eth0 is started; if dhcp signal is found proceed with the > initialization of eth0, while if dhcp is not found try to start eth1. >
Have you looked into sys-apps/ifplugd ? > 2) as of now, at boot time i've only eth0; obviously if it's not > connected via ethernet cable the dhcp goes in timeout and net > initialization is failed. Then at the prompt i reissue > /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start to start wireless connection. However, and > here's the problem, the first time i digit this, eth1 goes in timeout > too. Digiting another time the same command and everythig goes well. > This situation is encountered everytime. > > Thanks in advance for any hint, > MC > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list