Am Mittwoch, 16. Februar 2005 17:30 schrieb Eric van der Paardt: [...] > The biggest thing holding me back is eth0, w/o a cable connected you get > a bunch of ugly DHCP connection junk on startup and it takes a long time > to time out. This will almost NEVER be connected, but I don't want to > just remove the auto setup for that interface in case someday he does > plug it into something... > > So is there a way with the /etc/interfaces stuff to only try to > auto-configure eth0 if there is a cable plugged in? Have a look at laptop-net. When a cable is plugged in, it tests whether the computer is connected to a configured network. If so, networking parameters are set accordingly. Works as a daemon, so no need to plug in the cable during boot.
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