On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:44:42 -0700
Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Proof:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -nr "dhclient" ./archival
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
>
> I have been getting annoyed at dhcpcd, which will take 180 seconds to
> ping even if there isn't a networking cable in my NIC. I use a laptop,
> so you can easily speculate how I got so annoyed.
>
> I know that Kubuntu had the ability to detect whether there was a cable
> in my laptop and ping accordingly. I looked at my Kubuntu workstation
> and found that it's using dhclient. I installed dhcpd on my laptop and
> tried my best to make it work. I got the following:
[snip]
Well, maybe I just misunderstood you, anyway... You could try pump
(the fastest/best dhcp client I know of :-) and ifplug, the latter
starts the wired ethernet interfaces when they get a link.
PPS.
The iface_eth interface is completely out of date, take a _very_ good
look at `/etc/conf.d/net.example'.
Greets,
Jan-Hendrik Zab
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