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Re: How to force ifup to wait for dhcp?



On Monday 21 July 2008 09:24, Mike Bird wrote:
> How does one force ifup to wait for dhcp?
>
> The Lenny laptops here start wlan0.  AP authentication
> and DHCP both occur independently in the background.
> Up to half a minute elapses before AP authentication
> has occured, DHCP has retried, and DHCP has succeeded.
>
> By then, openvpn has gotten very confused by the absence
> of a default route and networking/openvpn/quagga have to
> be restarted manually in order to put the pieces back
> together in the right order.
>
> Do I really need a "post-up sleep 30" or is there a better
> solution?

Can you please attach your
 /etc/network/interfaces
file?

>
> TIA,
>
> --Mike Bird

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