dhclient backgrounding
Ok, I don't know if this the proper list to ask this, but...
I'm fairly new to Debian, and I have sarge running in a couple of alpha
machines.
Today we had a power failure, followed by some network problems (the
switch to which our DHCP server is connected, went into a coma...), but
when things were put back to normal, our alpha machines (the only ones
running Debian) had to have their network interfaces restarted manually
in order to get an IP address.
Is this normal, shouldn't dhclient on Debian go into the background and
configure the interfaces as soon as a DHCP server gets available, like
other distros (SuSE, for instance) do?
If this is normal behaviour, is there some way to change it (I'm not
asking about going around changing scripts)?
Carlos Rodrigues
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