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toralf
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 5:47 pm    Post subject: [solved] eth0 is RUNNING at home but not at office Reply with quote

Initially I wondered why knemo showed the icon for eth0 only at home but not when I'm in the office. Then I realized that at work (wlan0) eth0 doesn't have the state RUNNING :
Code:
tfoerste@n22 ~ $ /sbin/ifconfig  | grep -e Link -e UP > home
tfoerste@n22 ~ $ cat home
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:24:7e:11:75:c4 
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol 
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1


I configures eth0 always to have a static ip 192.168.0.254. At work I use wlan0 to connect to the company intranet, at home I've DSL (ppp0).

What makes the difference that eth0 is not in RUNNING state at work ?


Last edited by toralf on Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:56 am; edited 1 time in total
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I assume that "RUNNING" only indicates, that a cable is plugged into the device. I reproduced your scenario with my notebook and my workstation and this is the only solution I could find.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yep - that was it.
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