On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 12:59 +0200, Jirka Klimes wrote: > On Saturday 09 of April 2011 02:01:09 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. > > Looks good. However, we may want to remove the 'invalid' flag for all > connections compatible with the device. > > Patches both for NM_0_8 and master attached.
Patches look good to me, thanks! Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
