Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On a machine in a local network, I have in my /etc/network/interfaces > file: > > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > But after a power outage, my machine sometimes restarts while the > network isn't available yet.
That does not seem right to me. I think that with the above it should all work okay. > In this case, I can no longer ssh to it. And I can't reboot it > remotely. Change the 'auto eth0' line to 'allow-hotplug eth0' instead. That triggers the dhcp to happen when the device becomes available. That will probably workaround whatever problem you are experiencing. The allow-hotplug is now the default in Etch. > How can I make pump (the DHCP client I'm using) to try again > periodically? I think it should already be trying again periodically. Perhaps the timeout is very long. You might try dhcp3-client instead. I have had good luck with it. I am suspicious that something else is also involved here that is causing confusion as to what is really happening. > Note: When I'm in front of the machine, I still want to be able to > use it when the network is not available (to do some local work, > while waiting for the network to come back). Sure. Laptops operate that way a lot! Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
