From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Grundler Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 00:06:52 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: Re: disabling nics using boot options. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Roy Dragseth wrote: > But, if I put in a sleep 60 after ifup in the /etc/init.d/network > script, everything is ok. IIRC, dhclient forks and lets the child/fork do the actual work. With sleep 60, seems the new process would run immediately. Perhaps the problem is an issue with the dhclient child-process not getting executed before something else attempts to use the interface? You have time to try "sleep 1" or "sleep 5"? > To me, an illiterate when it comes to drivers and network hardware, it seems > like the network card (or driver) needs some time to get ready to serve after > beeing configured. Again, the problem only occurs when running Gbit, it > never shows up when I connect to a 100Mbit switch. hmmm...I don't know anything about Gbit vs 100Bt negotiations, but maybe the Gbit negotiation is just taking longer? grant