Bug 123875

Summary:	at network startup mii-tool to determine if dhcp client should be run
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Brian Litzinger <brian>
Component:	[OLD] baselayout	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Brian Litzinger 2006-02-23 18:01:39 UTC

the network startup hangs (or at least pauses) a good deal when an dhcp client is started on an ethernet port with no physical connection.

I think it would be desirable to use 'mii-tool' if available. during network startup to peek at the ethernet port to determine if the physical layer is present.

If the physical layer is present go ahead and run a dhcp client, otherwise don't.

I apologize for not writing this myself, but the learning curve for the network startup code looked too steep.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-02-23 18:06:55 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 96146 ***

Comment 2 Brian Litzinger 2006-02-23 19:39:24 UTC

sorry about that. while searching the bug database I search on mii-tool instead of mii-diag.