Re: problems with pump and airport
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 15:28, Jonas Bandi wrote:
> I used dhclient. Now everybody was talking about pump so I tried it.
>
> The problem is I can use pump only once to configure my eth1 (airport). Then I have to reboot...
>
> A bit more specific:
>
> When i boot, configuring eth1 fails because I use WEP (can anybody tell me the offical way, how/where to use iwconfig for startup, I guess that has something to do with /etc/network/if-pre-up.d ?)
>
> When the system is booted I use iwconfig manually.
> Then I ifdown and ifup eth1, and it works ...
>
> BUT when I now ifdown eth1 and try ifup eth1 again, it fails ...
>
> Specifically pump -i eth1 fails ...
>
> /etc/init.d/networking restart fails too ...
>
> But when I reboot and then repeat the first steps it works again!
>
> (I feel quite embarassed to have to reboot, I mean this is linux... ?)
This must be resolvable another way, e.g. by unloading and reloading the
airport module, or...
> The strange thing is when I switch back to using dhclient, everything works fine...
... do you happen to use iptables? IME that can cause pump to fail.
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