On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:42:00AM -0800, Bart Smaalders wrote: > If we don't do automatic reconfigs of network state, is there > a way to insure that network operations depending on a currently > unavailable network "fail fast"? If my wireless link has dropped, > waiting for YP/DNS/LDAP to timeout is going to be rather tiresome; > I'd much rather it failed right away with a "no route to host" > kind of message.
This is hard to address in the path of the hang -- the functions that are hanging are hanging because that's the only thing they're expected to do in these situations, and changing this behaviour isn't likely to be feasible. The best thing to do in the short-term, IMO, on a GUI console login is to pop-up a little ballon saying something to the effect that "you've lost your network, things will hang, click here for some options." Nico --
