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From: Seewer Philippe <philippe.seewer-omB+W0Dpw2o@public.gmane.org>
To: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
Cc: "initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org"
	<initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: dracut requires router
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 15:30:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CAF1D02.6060701@bfh.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CAEF060.8030701-V8g9lnOeT5ydJdNcDFJN0w@public.gmane.org>

On 10/08/2010 12:20 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> My terminals just failed to boot because the router
> was (temporarily) unavailable. Seems this is on purpose?
>
> http://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=dracut/dracut;a=commit;h=98f25e96
>
> I don't know what the above is trying to do exactly.

What this does ist simply try and give a possible router enough time to 
update its STP caches (See 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanning_tree_protocol) so that subsequent 
mount attempts don't fail because the router isn't ready.

So yes, it is on purpose if the available IP information contains routers.

I Hope this helps

Regards,
Philippe

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-08 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-08 10:20 dracut requires router Pádraig Brady
     [not found] ` <4CAEF060.8030701-V8g9lnOeT5ydJdNcDFJN0w@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-08 13:30   ` Seewer Philippe [this message]
     [not found]     ` <4CAF1D02.6060701-omB+W0Dpw2o@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-08 13:59       ` Pádraig Brady
     [not found]         ` <4CAF23BA.4010605-V8g9lnOeT5ydJdNcDFJN0w@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-08 14:17           ` Seewer Philippe
     [not found]             ` <4CAF27EF.80301-omB+W0Dpw2o@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-08 15:19               ` Pádraig Brady
     [not found]                 ` <4CAF367D.7030707-V8g9lnOeT5ydJdNcDFJN0w@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-15 12:05                   ` [PATCH] network: don't die if gateway is down and root server is local Pádraig Brady
     [not found]                     ` <4CB84390.5060203-V8g9lnOeT5ydJdNcDFJN0w@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-15 13:43                       ` Harald Hoyer
     [not found]                         ` <4CB85A73.6010902-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-15 14:03                           ` Pádraig Brady
     [not found]                             ` <4CB85F31.5010207-V8g9lnOeT5ydJdNcDFJN0w@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-28 15:14                               ` Harald Hoyer

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