reassign 537271 netcfg thanks Quoting Robert Edmonds (edmonds@debian.org): > a nice strategy to detect if the network is usable might be to send ARP > requests for the default gateway's IP address and consider the network > "up" only after the default gateway is reachable. it looks like there > is a busybox version of the arping utility that could help accomplish > this. Ready to implement this in netcfg? :-) PS: that would probably need some debconf stuff to implement a dialog saying something like "Waiting for the network link...". I'd suggest to add such a detection *after* the first attempt to use the network fails...
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