From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17855 invoked by uid 1002); 21 Mar 2003 15:44:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 19361 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2003 15:44:08 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 16:44:06 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <1047156369.6631.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20030321084308.4165b981.azarah@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_GNze+Y+7GQvsyCS"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200303211644.06466.gentoo-user@devrieze.net> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net.eth0 X-Archives-Salt: 14f639b5-1f03-4d6a-8654-c727e943ae50 X-Archives-Hash: 4b8bf5907178c84273805b00eb242675 --Boundary-02=_GNze+Y+7GQvsyCS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 21 March 2003 16:42, Wout Mertens wrote: > Well, instead of hard-coding a few ways (ifconfig parameters or dhcp) of > bringing up the network interfaces, I propose a modular approach, where a > few functions/scripts are defined that can bring up the interface, and you > can define which ones you like in what order. To bring up the interface, > they will be called in order until one succeeds. > I like this idea, I personally did a hack that took the cache of my dhcpcd = to=20 bring my interface up. At the time the dhcp server of my ISP was failing=20 every now and then. The IP did never change, but I wanted to be up without= =20 the dhcpd. It workes well, and I think other people might want similar=20 things. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: pauldv@cs.kun.nl Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv --Boundary-02=_GNze+Y+7GQvsyCS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+ezNGNb2zbbdIrucRAuVlAJ4mUuyhN0usb0fifMupear9aRzpogCfZFyi rpBliUt2JKHwUclkvFq8A2c= =ZDKw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_GNze+Y+7GQvsyCS--