On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 04:01:09 +0400 Mikhail Efremov wrote: > On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 17:24:44 -0500 Dan Williams wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 11:37 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > > > I have a strange issue. I lost power last night and one of my > > > systems came up before my DHCP server did (which is surprising, > > > because my DHCP server usually comes up pretty quick!) This > > > "client" system was supposed to get itself on the network (it has > > > an auto-logon system). However, NM didn't succeed because my DHCP > > > server wasn't responding, yet. > > > > > > This is a hard-wired system (not wireless). Is there any way to > > > get NM to periodically retry DHCP if at first it does not succeed? > > > > > > I realize that DHCP has its own retry mechanism, but if the whole > > > process times out, can I set NM to retry every, say, 5 minutes? > > > > We'd need some code changes in NM; basically for wired connections > > if the activation attempt fails a certain number of times > > (currently 3) then the connection is marked "invalid". What > > probably should happen is that internally, in nm-policy.c, a > > timeout handler should be scheduled for the connection (using > > g_timeout_add_seconds()) that triggers after 5 minutes or so and if > > the connection isn't currently active (ie check the NMManager's > > active connection list) then the invalid flag is cleared from the > > connection, which will let it be automatically retried. > > Not on this issue exactly, but this is reminded me about my old patch > which was written long time ago (it was just forgotten to submit, > sorry). If cable was unplugged, then when it is replugged this may be > another network, so NM should try to reconnect even if the connection > was early marked as "invalid". > This patch for the NM_0_8 branch, for master it should be remaked, but > I have no time to do this right now, sorry. And there may be no > necessary for a separate function to clear the tag.
BTW, I think in the function sleeping_changed() in nm-policy.c should be called g_object_unref() for all connections, nm_manager_get_connections() is still refered them in NM-0.8. -- WBR, Mikhail Efremov _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
