Hi there, I have a slightly complicated to explain networking problem. I have a laptop with redhat 9 installed, that connects to the network in one of three ways.
a) With a netgear wireless NIC (at home) -- eth1 b) With the built in NIC (at home) -- eth0 c) Via a PPPoE and PPTP connection through eth0 at work When I connect at work, I have to boot up with the network cable unplugged (eth0 fails due to no cable and eth1 fails due to device missing -- I don't tend to plug it in at work), then plug it in and run '/sbin/ifup ppp0' and '/usr/sbin/pptp-command start' to bring the network up. If I have the network cable plugged in when the computer boots, the boot up hangs for several minutes trying to start eth0, before failing (it doesn't know that it has to use PPPoE/PPTP etc to start it up). At home, if the wired network is connected, it works fine, if the wireless card is in, it works fine. What would be really nice would be if it could either not take so long to fail if the network card was in (this is especially annoying if I reboot the computer ever as I have to remember to disconnect the network cable before it gets to the bit where eth0 starts), or even better, when it starts eth0, to decide that getting DHCP information isn't easy (as it presumably is at home connected to the Netgear router) and so run a script that connects to the PPPoE/PPTP nomadic connection. Probably me being optimistic, but if anyone can help a relative newbie at linux sort this out, you will have my eternal gratitude (what good it'll do you I don't know, but still...) Many thanks in advance, Al -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
