Quoting Robert Edmonds (edmonds@debian.org): > Robert Edmonds wrote: > > here is a new version of the patch. this one makes the reachability > > test conditional on !is_wireless_iface(), since wireless interfaces > > don't have the 802.1d forwarding delay problem. > > i have now built a test d-i which includes busybox arping and the netcfg > arping patch: > > http://people.debian.org/~edmonds/d-i-arping/mini-arping.iso Can you compare the sizes of the busybox udeb with and without the arping patch? I think that the only objection against applying your patches could be the size increase for the D-I initrd.... If that seems bearable, then I don't really see objections for applying it (but would leave the decision to Matt Palmer as "main" netcfg maintainer). Thanks again for this work (it's always great to see people working on new DI features!).
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