On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 23:05 +0200, Luc Deschenaux wrote: > Hi ! > > This behaviour is extremely annoying when you connect directly some > machine with a crossover cable for netbooting (eg to install a system on > a machine without cdrom player, to scan for viruses, backuping, resizing > partitions, or whatever) > > Or when ethernet interface is connected to a Powered Over Ethernet (POE) > device directly through a POE power supply and that you need to reboot > it. > > The link is lost each time you connect the ethernet cable on another > machine and each time you reboot the connected machine. And each time > you need to activate the needed configuration again. > > Trying to flash the firmware of a handfull of POE devices will quickly > make you hate the network manager... especially if you have to > reconfigure some routes manually also. > > It would be nice to be able to declare an ethernet configuration as > being "sticky" so that the interface would not deconfigure itself when > the link is down, and not try to reconfigure itself automatically when > the link is up again.
That's something I've discussed with various people, but before we do that, we should add a few-second grace-period to the link instead of just tearing it down immediately. How long is the link actually down before it comes back up? I have also encountered this when doing crossover stuff but it's always back up in a matter of seconds. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
