This is essentially what I ended up doing. As Mr. Sturdevant observed, card services do not come up in time.
I added a script at the end of the boot sequence in rc2.d that restarts networking, dhcpd and shorewall, and suddenly Bob's your Uncle! I got the same clue from an article that appeared referenced at SlashDot, which discussed making a Linux-powered wireless access point from a single board computer that used CF cards for the main storage and PCMCIA cards for the wireless NIC and ethernet NIC. It acted primarily as a bridge. As I read the article, he had a sentence that mentioned card services not up yet, so eth0 not up yet, so restart....and the blindingly obvious strikes. I said I'd pass on what I learned...maybe we could add this to the official howto, or some such? -----Original Message----- From: S Mohan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 03:30 To: Erich Titl; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [leaf-user] followup to interfaces / shorewall assist If it is a question of interface not coming up, why not put the commands in if-up and in rmnologon in /etc/init.d, add the "svi networking restart"? Mohan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Erich Titl Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 1:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [leaf-user] followup to interfaces / shorewall assist Greg At 18:14 27.07.2003, Greg Playle wrote: >Tom, Steve and George: > Thank you; the information you gave was helpful. > I checked a bit more; in short, eth0 does not come up on boot, > but seems >to take a while--perhaps longer than Erich Titl's script allows. I've got >to check more on the script, as I'm not sure it delays as long as needed. > Restarting networking, esp eth0, brings it up fine, and then I can >manually launch dhcpd, after which all responds as it should. I'm able to >ping the eth0 address (192.168.1.254) both from itself and from another >machine (which obtained its IP from the dhcp server). > What I'd like to accomplish is having this all come up without > having to >manually restart eth0 and dhcpd. > What I think is going on is that the version of Erich's script > I'm using >doesn't wait 60 seconds, but runs to completion in about one second, so >eth0 is still not "up" before the boot process continues. Since eth0 isn't >yet up, networking, therefore dhcpd, don't work either. By the time boot >completes, eth0 is up, and manual restart of networking on eth0 and on >dhcpd work. I guess you must have modified the assert script as it is written for 2 interfaces and would run at a wrong init level. I believe it does not run in your case for some reason difficult to diagnose unless you tell us more about the way you implemented it. I am pretty certain your problems stem from the interface not being up and the assert script failing for some reason. It does not have a backup routine, so it would be saved by etc I guess. So here is the stupid question, did you back it up? regards Erich THINK Puntenstrasse 39 8143 Stallikon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8 C024 8D8A B7D4 FF9D 05B8 0A16 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
