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Bug#537271: marked as done (debian-installer: network may not be usable as soon as link is up)

Your message dated Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:50:03 +0000
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and subject line Bug#537271: fixed in netcfg 1.61
has caused the Debian Bug report #537271,
regarding debian-installer: network may not be usable as soon as link is up
to be marked as done.

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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.org

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Source: netcfg
Source-Version: 1.61

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_1.61_amd64.udeb
  to main/n/netcfg/netcfg-static_1.61_amd64.udeb
netcfg_1.61.dsc
  to main/n/netcfg/netcfg_1.61.dsc
netcfg_1.61.tar.gz
  to main/n/netcfg/netcfg_1.61.tar.gz
netcfg_1.61_amd64.udeb
  to main/n/netcfg/netcfg_1.61_amd64.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 537271@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Otavio Salvador <otavio@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)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:40:39 -0300
Source: netcfg
Binary: netcfg netcfg-static
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.61
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>
Description: 
 netcfg     - Configure the network (udeb)
 netcfg-static - Configure a static network (udeb)
Closes: 537271 605013
Changes: 
 netcfg (1.61) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Konstantinos Margaritis]
   * Added armhf in arch field. Closes: #605013.
 .
   [ Robert Edmonds ]
   * Wait for the network to be usable before trying to use it
     (in the case of STP-enabled switch for instance
     Use busybox's arping with the '-f' flag (quit on first ARP reply).
     Wait up to 45 seconds for an ARP reply from the default gateway
     Closes: #537271
 .
   [ Samuel Thibault ]
   * Make netcfg depend on isc-dhcp-client-udeb on hurd-any too, for the same
     reason as kfreebsd: no support for udhcp in busybox.
   * dhcp.c: Implement no_default_route on Hurd.
   * Increase the frequency of DHCP discover packets sent during DHCP
     configuration using dhclient too.
   * netcfg.h: Fix the isc-dhcp dhclient.conf path.
 .
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