My laptop has two fixed (e.g., not PCMCIA) network cards, one wired
and one wireless (802.11a/b combo). Both are set up by default to use
DHCP in /etc/network/interfaces, and right now the wired card comes up
first. I'd like to not wait to a DHCP timeout if I don't need to. I
also know the question "is there an Ethernet cable connected" can be
asked, though not how. Also, I don't want both the wired and wireless
up the vast majority of the time.
So, what I'd like is to have my network startup work something like
this:
if eth0.have_ethernet_cable():
eth0.ifup()
if not eth0.has_address():
eth1.ifup()
(So, don't try to bring the wired interface up if there's not a
connection, and don't try to bring the wireless up if we successfully
brought the wired interface up.)
Any hints on how to do this? (Besides writing ifupdown-python? :-)
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