netplug - what is required?

philip · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 535 Location: Sweden

I emerged netplug from a tip in /etc/conf.d/net (pretty much to the end) with the hope that my eth0 i/f would handled nicely, no matter if the ethernet cable is connected or not. The tip explains that netplug is just to emrge and no other configurations are neccessary.

Unfortunately, with netplug installed, my boot process fails when kde is initiated. An error message comes up: "DNS temporarily out of service" (or a similar wording).

Unfortunately there is no man page for netplug and not much info on the forums. Is there anything more required when netplug is installed, e.g. coldplug?

Another question: is netplug superfluous if the right config options are chosen in /etc/conf.d/net (i.e. can I make the system behave nicely, i.e. start without problems, eventhought the ethernet cable is disconnected)?
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neiljw · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 6:38 pm Post subject:

I've never used netplug but ifplugd works well for me on my laptop.

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danomac · Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject:

philip, what's in your /etc/hosts file? Did you put your machine name next to localhost?

philip · Guru Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 535 Location: Sweden

My /etc/hosts looks like this:

danomac · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:21 am Post subject:

I'd remove the extra spaces. Only have one space between localhost and phils_pc.

The only other thing you can do is prevent udev from starting the scripts and start them manually. Go to /etc/conf.d/rc and put '!net.*' in the RC_PLUG_SERVICES line.

d2_racing · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:36 am Post subject:

I use ifplugd and everything is fine on my laptop too