Your message dated Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:38:54 +0000 with message-id <E1Pm154-00027Y-U1@franck.debian.org> and subject line Bug#414117: fixed in netcfg 1.60 has caused the Debian Bug report #414117, regarding debian-installer: network may not be usable as soon as link is up to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 414117: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=414117 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
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- Subject: debian-installer: network may not be usable as soon as link is up
- From: Robert Edmonds <edmonds@debian.org>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:39:24 -0400
- Message-id: <20090716153924.GA10535@mycre.ws>
Package: debian-installer Version: 20090123lenny1 hi, the debian-installer seems to assume that the network is usable as soon as the link comes up, which may not be the case if the 802.1d spanning tree protocol is in use, in which case it can be up to ~30 seconds before the switch port will forward ethernet frames. i've noticed that trying to preseed a network install on a machine attached to an STP-enabled switch usually fails since as soon as the network link is up, d-i attempts to perform a reverse DNS lookup and fetch the preseed.cfg file via HTTP, both of which timeout and fail before the switch port the machine is attached to enters the forwarding state. 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. -- Robert Edmonds edmonds@debian.orgAttachment: signature.asc
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- To: 414117-close@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#414117: fixed in netcfg 1.60
- From: Matt Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:38:54 +0000
- Message-id: <E1Pm154-00027Y-U1@franck.debian.org>
Source: netcfg Source-Version: 1.60 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of netcfg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: netcfg-static_1.60_i386.udeb to main/n/netcfg/netcfg-static_1.60_i386.udeb netcfg_1.60.dsc to main/n/netcfg/netcfg_1.60.dsc netcfg_1.60.tar.gz to main/n/netcfg/netcfg_1.60.tar.gz netcfg_1.60_i386.udeb to main/n/netcfg/netcfg_1.60_i386.udeb A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 414117@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Matt Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> (supplier of updated netcfg package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:59:07 +1100 Source: netcfg Binary: netcfg netcfg-static Architecture: source i386 Version: 1.60 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Matt Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> Description: netcfg - Configure the network (udeb) netcfg-static - Configure a static network (udeb) Closes: 399071 414117 496647 606515 610553 Changes: netcfg (1.60) unstable; urgency=low . [ Matt Palmer ] * Increase the frequency of DHCP discover packets sent during DHCP configuration using udhcpc. This should ameliorate some problems with DHCP configuration when a link is slow to become available. Thanks to Ferenc Wagner for the patch. * Clarify the requirements for hostnames. Closes: #399071. * Modify ethtool-lite so that it distinguishes between "ethtool failed" and "ethtool says link is down". This should reduce link up/link down confusion. Closes: #496647. * Wait for up to 3 seconds (in 0.25s increments) looking for the link on an interface. Add a progress bar to show the progress of this operation. Closes: #414117. * Wait for link detection on static interface configuration. Closes: #606515. * Release DHCP lease at the completion of the install. Closes: #610553. . [ Updated translations ] * Czech (cs.po) by Miroslav Kure * Basque (eu.po) by Piarres Beobide * French (fr.po) by Christian Perrier * Kazakh (kk.po) by Baurzhan Muftakhidinov * Nepali (ne.po) * Russian (ru.po) by Yuri Kozlov * Slovak (sk.po) by Ivan Masár * Swedish (sv.po) by Daniel Nylander * Telugu (te.po) by Arjuna Rao Chavala * Thai (th.po) by Theppitak Karoonboonyanan Checksums-Sha1: 150da085b3151e44ec2346dd7951b6316ffa673d 1087 netcfg_1.60.dsc d9fc057133018d249e800046770e351fe057d8e5 426818 netcfg_1.60.tar.gz 4a3fa640810e8432ec8f6d8f9443f4e9a1fb6c2b 318010 netcfg_1.60_i386.udeb 867de966db11bd4025521b2729f61f96663e273e 243732 netcfg-static_1.60_i386.udeb Checksums-Sha256: acfaa16d8c649ba047758af690216ea31f28af6a943443209b4d9ae86da20472 1087 netcfg_1.60.dsc 7dcead5de32a689ff5d32f7efd851f007b9c8f74b63ea1868c4e39e642e3cb1a 426818 netcfg_1.60.tar.gz a7b73c85a4e2c875c5f3302248df55d79458bc282999045844afce8845febf81 318010 netcfg_1.60_i386.udeb f27a71edc33db4f8b101cc9fa062f7fd29fccddfdcf70e9810bc2e370caa5ce6 243732 netcfg-static_1.60_i386.udeb Files: b8e61b3bd5f10588d92117eb366ff086 1087 debian-installer optional netcfg_1.60.dsc 1bd95ab09187ce4dec5c10a939edb4cf 426818 debian-installer optional netcfg_1.60.tar.gz e245696aea11efe9d5f7ba89d2c70fd4 318010 debian-installer optional netcfg_1.60_i386.udeb 9ebb07fbb04e88b68b930a199b533bc9 243732 debian-installer optional netcfg-static_1.60_i386.udeb Package-Type: udeb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFNTgSIBEnrTWk1E4cRAlp6AJ9dKlIC071ycb2mU4I8itgeU4ktUACeJLCf CCr8i3SRTmBMqzl2jvsCr7E= =0JEP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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