Re: What's bring eth0 up?

[fra-dlap-no-spam@tourde.org (François TOURDE)]

Le 13139ième jour après Epoch,
Bill Moseley écrivait:

> I just (finally) replaced a hard drive in an older Toshiba laptop
> (2805-S302) and went from a few-month-old sid install to Sarge.
>
> My wireless connection now takes much longer, and it seems that might be
> due to trying to bring up eth0 first instead of eth1.  I boot with the
> wireless card in the laptop.
>
>
>     $ fgrep eth0 /etc/network/interfaces 
>     #auto eth0
>     iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> eth0 shouldn't come up.  But I see this in syslog:
>
> # Then the eth0 is attempted:
> Dec 22 06:28:18 localhost dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
>

Maybe dhclient is launched without parms, so it try on all
interfaces. Check ps to see cmdline.

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