Bug#1069048: All NICs tried with same retries and timeouts?

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

Hi,

Narcis Garcia <debianbugs@actiu.net> wrote:
> Could you review this patch for pre-wget phase, so it considers that a
> NIC succeeds whet it acquires default gateway address?

Checking if a NIC has a default gateway interface is not the right way 
to check if that nick should be in use. There are some configurations 
where it's ok that there would be *NO* default gateway. This is a 
perfectly valid DHCP setup.

The only way to check if it worked, is simply what's done right now: 
check if dhclient gets an IP address. This part isn't even in the patch 
itself, the only thing that this patch does, is listing the cards with 
the link up, to pass it to the next step (ie: dhcp), which this patch 
doesn't touch (it's written properly already, and works with multiple 
network interface in the DEVICES= variable in /conf/param.conf).

So there's IMO nothing more to do in this patch.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)