Bug#537271: debian-installer: network may not be usable as soon as link is up

2010-12-13 Thread Floris Bos
On Thursday, July 16, 2009 05:39:24 pm you wrote: the debian-installer seems to assume that the network is usable as soon as the link comes up, which may not be the case if the 802.1d spanning tree protocol is in use, in which case it can be up to ~30 seconds before the switch port will

Bug#537271: debian-installer: network may not be usable as soon as link is up

2009-07-16 Thread Robert Edmonds
Package: debian-installer Version: 20090123lenny1 hi, the debian-installer seems to assume that the network is usable as soon as the link comes up, which may not be the case if the 802.1d spanning tree protocol is in use, in which case it can be up to ~30 seconds before the switch port will

Bug#537271: debian-installer: network may not be usable as soon as link is up

2009-07-16 Thread Christian Perrier
reassign 537271 netcfg thanks Quoting Robert Edmonds (edmo...@debian.org): a nice strategy to detect if the network is usable might be to send ARP requests for the default gateway's IP address and consider the network up only after the default gateway is reachable. it looks like there is a

Bug#537271: debian-installer: network may not be usable as soon as link is up

2009-07-16 Thread Robert Edmonds
Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Robert Edmonds (edmo...@debian.org): a nice strategy to detect if the network is usable might be to send ARP requests for the default gateway's IP address and consider the network up only after the default gateway is reachable. it looks like there is a

Bug#537271: debian-installer: network may not be usable as soon as link is up

2009-07-16 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Robert Edmonds (edmo...@debian.org): Ready to implement this in netcfg? :-) maybe. it's python, right? where is the trunk? Aha. Nothing in D-I is python. Too big stuff netcfg is implemented in C. It is one of the few parts in D-I that's coded in C. PS: that would probably