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Tonglebeak
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 Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:15 am Post subject: way to make net.ra0 not start if net.eth0 is detected? |
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I have a tower that I bring into work sometimes. At home I use a wireless connection (net.ra0) and at work I use an ethernet connection (net.eth0).
Whenever is there a way to make it so net.ra0 does NOT startup when net.eth0 is detected? Obviously when net.ra0 tries to start it takes forever trying to find a wireless network that isn't there. Removing net.ra0 with rc-update del net.ra0 does not help. |
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mamac
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Hello,
Maybe ifplugd could do something for you, but I didn't investigate that much...
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Tin
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Wating for you to have a complete clean solution, you can at least make the "forever" a bit quicker by modifying the dhcp timeout in /etc/conf.d/net (originally at 60 seconds)
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# For passing custom options to dhcpcd use something like the following. This
# example reduces the timeout for retrieving an address from 60 seconds (the
# default) to 10 seconds.
#dhcpcd_eth0="-t 10"
#dhcpcd_ra0="-t 10"
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UberLord
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| Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:24 am Post subject: Re: way to make net.ra0 not start if net.eth0 is detected? |
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| Tonglebeak wrote: | I have a tower that I bring into work sometimes. At home I use a wireless connection (net.ra0) and at work I use an ethernet connection (net.eth0).
Whenever is there a way to make it so net.ra0 does NOT startup when net.eth0 is detected? Obviously when net.ra0 tries to start it takes forever trying to find a wireless network that isn't there. Removing net.ra0 with rc-update del net.ra0 does not help. |
Use netplugd to manage the wired connection.
As ra0 does not support wpa_supplicant, you have to use iwconfig. But it's not all bad as if you setup so that it scans instead of forces an ESSID then it's quite fast - <2 seconds on my laptop.
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