Hi guys, using ifplugd - unfortunately it does not down the interface at startup -even thought it does detect that it is actually down. see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=162916&highlight=ifplugd for details. I've looked high and low for a config option to make it do this - but there is none. it works fine, if I plug in the cable, and then unplug it. ifplugd does not take care of setting routes correctly - but it is fair to say, that the corresponding stop/start network-scripts should handle that - which I made them to, via the wireless-config ebuild (not in portage - written by UberLord) :) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. up your eth0 without cable being plugged in 2. start ifplugd 3. watch the logs and see it detects the if being unplugged.. but does not down it. Expected Results: It should down the interface.
is this still an issue wiht ifplugd-0.25 ?
I just upgraded 0.25 - and it still does not take care of downing the interface at boot :( Perhaps thats how its supposed to work - which would IMHO be a failure by design.
I have similar problems. To show my problems: /etc/init.d/ifplugd stop /etc/init.d/ifplugd start My link-cable is plugged in, and starting net.eth0 by hand works flawlessly, however, net.eth0 wouldn't start. I tried out plugging-out the cable, and it would shut down the interface. However, plugging it back in wouldn't start it. I'm not sure, whether we're talking about the same/similar bug, but at least, it has been working with the oder version, being 0.13x afaik. I just noted a very funny thing: When I do then manually /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start, ifplugd would detect the link beat. Could it be that net.eth0 shuts down the interface, which doesn't, in turn, allow ifplugd detect the link-beat? Dec 25 14:22:45 [ifplugd(eth0)] Link beat lost. Dec 25 14:22:47 [ifplugd(eth0)] Executing '/usr/sbin/ifplugd.action eth0 down'. Dec 25 14:22:47 [ifplugd(eth0)] Program executed successfully. Dec 25 14:25:07 [kernel] e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Half Duplex ##-- Now I started the net.eth0 interface --## Dec 25 14:25:07 [rc-scripts] Configuration not set for eth0 - assuming dhcp Dec 25 14:25:09 [kernel] e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Half Duplex Dec 25 14:25:10 [ifplugd(eth0)] Link beat detected. Dec 25 14:25:11 [ifplugd(eth0)] Executing '/usr/sbin/ifplugd.action eth0 up'. Dec 25 14:25:11 [ifplugd(eth0)] Program executed successfully. Dec 25 14:25:12 [dhcpcd] infinite IP address lease time. Exiting_
I can confirm: I boot my computer - sometimes, eth0 starts, this time it didn't. I did ifconfig eth0 up, and ifplugd would start the device.
Should be fixed with a combination of ifplugd-0.28-r1 and baselayout-1.12.0_pre7-r1
