On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 03:16:28PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On 7 Jul 2002, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 15:43, Michael Sternberg wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Is it advisable in case of such failure to start computer with a random
> > > > static IP and continue to look for DHCP server in background ?
> > > > This way the boot process will be at least continued..
> > >
> > > Choosing addresses at random is verbotten and will get your BOfH to come
> > > chase you around the office with a big LART. You already have a local
> > > loopback address (127.0.0.1) it should be enough provided you have a
> > > /etc/hosts file that maps that to your machine name.
> >
> > So you think that when dhcpcd fails the system (the script running it)
> > should rewrite /etc/hosts to map the host name to 127.0.0.1 ? Is this done
> > anywhere?
> >
> > What is 169.254.0.0/16 ?
>
> I believe that keeping the interface down is the best option - I only wish it
> kept trying...
cron to the rescue?
a cron job that runs every 5 minutes:
if eth0 is up
exit 0
if exists file /var/lock/dhcpd/shlodnt_try_to_run
exit 0
a_test_for_an_alrteady_runing_dhcp
exit 0
ifup eth0
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