[Netconf-devel] quick wishlist
Thomas Hood
jdthood at aglu.demon.nl
Wed Aug 17 09:24:13 UTC 2005
martin f krafft wrote:
> if I configure an interface through ifup with DHCP and it fails to
> get a lease (T-Mobile is fucking incapable of running proper DHCP
> servers -- heck, their entire network just stinks), the dhclient
> process is backgrounded and the interface left configured. I am not
> sure this is the best way to do things. I'd like to check out use of
> the -1 flag, which causes dhclient to fail when it can't get a lease
> on first try. This would cause ifup not to mark the interface
> configured.
I attempted to get such changes into the experimental version of
ifupdown. Unfortunately the package maintainer refused to cooperate.
Fortunately, mobile users will soon be able to use network-manager
instead of ifupdown. I am already using it in Breezy.
--
Thomas Hood
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