On 2009-10-01 23:11:51 +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > This is odd: guessnet does try to bring the interface up if it is down: > > > Thu Oct 1 09:38:46 2009: guessnet: Interface eth0 was down: initializing > > for broadcast > > so apparently the method that guessnet is using is somehow not working > for your network interface. I think I took the code from ifconfig, even. > After bringing the interface up, guessnet polls it to see when it comes > up, and if it doesn't it will complain. The code is in src/IFace.cc, in > IFace::initBroadcast.
Well, I'd say that guessnet may correctly bring the interface up, but it should wait before using pcap (with my workaround, I needed a "sleep 1" to avoid the pcap error). Or you could add another option like --init-delay and --init-time to introduce a delay at the right time (--init-delay introduces a delay before guessnet brings the interface up and --init-time introduces a delay after the pcap error, so that these options are useless in my case): just after the interface has been brought up. > Or it could be that pcap in your case fails if the interface is > configured for broadcast. After you do "ifconfig eth0 up", do you > have an IP address assigned to the interface? Not always. Whether there's one or not, the behavior is the same: it works. > What if you instead do "ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up": would it still > work? Yes, it does. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
