From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_NXDOMAIN, DMARC_MISSING,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from pandora.cs.kun.nl (pandora.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.4]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56891AC38D for ; Mon, 5 Aug 2002 03:43:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from callisto by pandora.cs.kun.nl via callisto.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.75] with ESMTP id g758hT513555 (8.11.3/3.53); Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:43:29 +0200 (MET DST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Paul de Vrieze To: Troy Dack , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] udhcp ebuild... please testy Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 10:43:28 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <1028381779.5822.1.camel@waterhouse.internal.lan> In-Reply-To: <1028381779.5822.1.camel@waterhouse.internal.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200208051043.28675.pauldv@cs.kun.nl> Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 3268a5b7-29a6-41e3-ac96-db19dad509e0 X-Archives-Hash: dc90d7d350c5b43656087a511b8f0c5a On Saturday 03 August 2002 15:36, Troy Dack wrote: > 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 network= ing. > > If I now fix the dhcp server then gentoo will not recognize that an I= P is > > now available. Reboot is necessary to activate dhcp again. > > Why not just restart the interface? eg: > > /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart I myself wrote a hack that gets the old ip-address from the cache and=20 temporary installs it as the ip-address (my machine has a "static" addres= s,=20 but lately the cable network has been unstable). This way the machine wil= l=20 function well in case of network problems. Maybe such an "optional" hack=20 could also be included in the boot scripts of udhcp. Paul --=20 Paul de Vrieze Junior Researcher Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net