On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 05:44:41PM +0200, Bob Alexander wrote:
> Dear Debian friends,
> until recently my laptop's eth0 adapter was managed perfectly by
> removing the "auto" param in /etc/network interfaces and using ifplugd.
>
> In this way at boot I did not have to wait for DHCP timeout when running
> disconnected but activated the ifup command as soon as ifplugd sensed
> the network plugged in.
>
> Now ifplugd is broken and every time I boot I must issue a manual ifup
> eth0. Of course using the auto param would work when plugged but be a
> nuisance when not.
>
> Are there any other alternatives I can use ?
I'm partial to laptop-net myself. It does everything you describe about
ifplugd and a few things you haven't described.
Nathan Malmberg
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