On Monday 21 July 2008 10:43, Mike Bird wrote: > On Mon July 21 2008 00:36:28 Shachar Or wrote: > > It would be more intelligent behaviour for the ifup script to wait with > > dhcp for AP association. If it does not do this, as you say, please > > report a bug against the ifupdown package. > > > > Perhaps the file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf can help you. In particular, > > the 'retry' statement. Check the dhclient.conf(5) manual for that. > > DHCP does retry. It's not optimal but it kinda works. Sometime after > AP authentication we eventually get DHCP from one of the retries.
I am suggesting that you set the retry to a lower value so that it will retry every minute or so, for example. > > 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? If this s true, then perhaps look at 'timeout' statement. If non of this works, perhaps you can use a static address instead of dhcp? > > --Mike Bird -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
