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Re: restarting pump (DHCP) automatically when network unavailable at boot time
Date: Thu Jun 28 2007 - 17:17:45 EDT
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On a machine in a local network, I have in my /etc/network/interfaces
> file:
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> But after a power outage, my machine sometimes restarts while the
> network isn't available yet.
That does not seem right to me. I think that with the above it should all work okay.
> In this case, I can no longer ssh to it. And I can't reboot it
> remotely.
Change the 'auto eth0' line to 'allow-hotplug eth0' instead. That triggers the dhcp to happen when the device becomes available. That will probably workaround whatever problem you are experiencing. The allow-hotplug is now the default in Etch.
> How can I make pump (the DHCP client I'm using) to try again
> periodically?
I think it should already be trying again periodically. Perhaps the timeout is very long. You might try dhcp3-client instead. I have had good luck with it.
I am suspicious that something else is also involved here that is causing confusion as to what is really happening.
> Note: When I'm in front of the machine, I still want to be able to
> use it when the network is not available (to do some local work,
> while waiting for the network to come back).
Sure. Laptops operate that way a lot!
Bob
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