-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 24 Nov 2002 7:36 pm, Buchan Milne wrote:
I just tried this little daemon and it works great! I use redhat7.3 (waiting for mdk9 to arrive) linksys 32bit cardbus (tulip) toshiba laptop > On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > Laptops are often in many different environement, and automatically > > launching network at boot often implies at least delays (specially with > > DHCP) and even errors when no effective connection is available. However, > > many programms (especially KDE) seems to need the loopback to work > > properly. > > So i'd like to have a distinct service for loopback, or any other way to > > launch loopback inconditionaly at boot, while being able to configure > > other network connections in a more selective way. > > I have been meaining to play with ifplugd, which is a tool which will > start an interface when a cable is plugged in, and drop it when it is > removed. It requires you to not have the interfaces started automatically > by the network service, but it will do it at boot if you are connected > anyway. > > In theory at least. > > If we were to get this working right, iit would be nice to either > 1)use this by default > 2)have a gui option for it. > > THe only problem then is that some daemons might need HUP'ing (or worse), > I don't know if 'ifup eth0' does anything in this regard? > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/ifplugd/ > > I have source some where, just haven't gotten around to trying it. I think > the biggest work will be testing the cards and drivers. I can test ne2000, > 8139too and 3c589_cs. > > Buchan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE94TCQPWN6s3vY5nQRAp6PAJ9Dn/icLtBMT1nBSrZU6jZfHp65DwCggAwS Znt6xfA+RsK6QBswxfqd4kQ= =7q3/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
