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Re: How to force ifup to wait for dhcp?



On Monday 21 July 2008 11:07, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Mon July 21 2008 00:50:39 Shachar Or wrote:
> > On Monday 21 July 2008 10:43, Mike Bird wrote:
> > > The problem is that I've not found a way to make startup wait for DHCP
> > > before plowing ahead and making a mess of openvpn, which then messes up
> > > the routing in quagga.
> >
> > Once dhcp fails/times-out the openvpn setup gets busted?
>
> DHCP neither fails nor times out.  DHCP occurs in the background.  Openvpn
> starts up before DHCP has succeeded.  Of particular concern to openvpn is
> that there is no default route until DHCP has succeeded.
>
> The question is how to make ifup wait for DHCP on wlan0, so that the
> default route is available when openvpn starts, as we need openvpn to
> create a route with a next hop of "net_gateway".

Which ifup is that you're talking about? There are three ifups; one for each 
interface you have.

>
> --Mike Bird

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