From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roy Dragseth Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 19:53:42 +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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 11 January 2003 01:06, Grant Grundler wrote: > 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? Well, as I said in a later mail the problem maninifests itself even if I us= e=20 static ip. > You have time to try "sleep 1" or "sleep 5" No, I haven't. > > > 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? > Yes, that migth be the case. r. --=20 The Computer Center, University of Troms=F8, N-9037 TROMS=D8, Norway. phone:+47 77 64 41 07, fax:+47 77 64 41 00 Roy Dragseth, High Performance Computing System Administrator Direct call: +47 77 64 62 56. email: royd@cc.uit.no