From: Troy Dack <troy@tkdack.com>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] udhcp ebuild... please testy
Date: 03 Aug 2002 23:36:18 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1028381779.5822.1.camel@waterhouse.internal.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0208030006390.8968-100000@melchi.fuller.edu>
On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 17:11, christoph@lameter.com wrote:
> New ebuild for a dhcp package. Recommended by Jon Nelson.
>
> This is the right(tm) way of doing dhcp. dhcp events trigger scripts. The
> current dhcpcd package is not doing that so that we have a braindead
> implementation of dhcp right now:
>
> Current situatiom:
> If a dhcp server is not available then
> the boot process hangs and then timeouts and proceeds without networking.
> If I now fix the dhcp server then gentoo will not recognize that an IP is
> now available. Reboot is necessary to activate dhcp again.
Why not just restart the interface? eg:
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart
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Troy Dack
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2002-08-03 7:11 [gentoo-dev] udhcp ebuild... please testy christoph
2002-08-03 13:36 ` Troy Dack [this message]
2002-08-05 8:43 ` Paul de Vrieze
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