On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 23:24:19 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:08:27 +0000, Mick wrote: > > > When Knoppix starts up and does not find an iface running, because say > > I have not yet switched on the router, it 'backgrounds' the net.eth0 > > script and carries on with the boot process. How can I set my Gentoo > > up so that it does the same? > > emerge ifplugd. that's it, you don't need to configure it or add it to a > runlevel, in fact you should not do so. The Gentoo net scripts detect the > presence of ifplugd and use it to do what you want.
They do? I emerged it a while ago now and then took net.ethx out of all runlevels and replaced it with ifplugd. Should i undo that? -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list

