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Re: "ifup eth0" works only once



On Wed, 2001-09-12 at 18:05, Marco Franzen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using Potato, and have just migrated from ISDN to cable modem.
> For this I had to introduce Ethernet (soft&hardware) and DHCP.
> 
> Internet is working again, but only "once".  After "ifdown eth0", an
> "ifup eth0" only hangs for a while and says "Operation failed".  If I
> forget to switch the modem on together with the computer (so that it
> does not finish initialising before the ifup in the boot script times
> out), I cannot get the network to work at all without rebooting.

snip

It's most likely pump.  I have the same problems but have been too busy
to deal with it.  I beleive going to dhcpcd should solve your problem.
It worked flawlessly for me until I rebuilt my firewall from scratch and
went with pump due to it being the default.

--mike



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