Re: PCMCIA card interface not holding its IP
Well, between pump and dhclient, only one of them works. dhclient has
never worked for me, and so i use pump. got any other recommendations
for "real clients"? also, i think its not actually an issue on my
machine, i think its cuz my campus network dhcp servers crash every
other day or so. i'll keep ya updated if anyone cares. ;-P --link
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 13:00, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 20-Mar-2002 Link wrote:
> > I'm not 100% positive this is my problem. I think it might be in part an
> > issue with the DHCP server i connect to. But I'm curious if other people
> > have encountered this problem.
> >
> > I run unstable (which might be the problem in and of itself) on an HP
> > N3310. I have a Linksys NE2000-Compatible PCMCIA card. I run a self
> > compiled kernel version 2.4.18. The /etc/init.d/pcmcia script loads and
> > unloads the modules properly, but after a long period on inactivity (for
> > example, overnight) the card releases its IP address (aquired via pump).
> > The eth0 interface stays up, but it doesn't renew an IP address. I think
> > I've found a quick fix by executing pump every 30 minutes (thanks
> > cron!). But I'd like to find a real fix to the problem. Is it a bug in
> > pump maybe? I don't know, hence why I'm asking the list. --Link
>
> well, to start with, pump is pure crap. Use a real client (-:
>
> Is it possible something is downing your interface in say a cron job?
>
>
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