On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 21:45:49 -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > I'm going to take your word and try ifplug, however, I installed it and > it doesn't work. Still pings up /dev/null for all it's doing. I even > went to rc-update and had it start at boot, though that didn't work.
You don't start it at all, let the network scripts deal with it. > My guess is that it's trying to use net.lo (the loopback device) and > thinks that that's plugged in therefore it tries to ping on everything > else. Nope, it defaults to eth0, but the network scripts use it on whichever interface they are trying to control (but not lo because there is no concept of a network cable or link beat for lo). You really should read net.example. -- Neil Bothwick Mr. bullfrog says: "time's fun when you're having flies."
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