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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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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast


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