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Skribent: aitor_czr
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Emne: Re: [DNG] WAIT_ONLINE_METHOD=none
Hi,

On 13/2/19 16:59, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
>>     If your ethernet cable can be either plugged or unplugged and you
>> want your system to react when you plug/unplug a cable in, then you need
>> a server to detect these changes and invoke ifup/ifdown accordingly.
>> This server can be ifplugd or netplug.
>>
>>     In this situation you simply don't need and don't want neither
>> 'auto eth0' nor 'allow-hotplug eth0' stanzas in your interfaces file.
>> These are the stanzas which will make your OS hang at boot time and they
>> are simply useless. Just remove them.
>>
>>         Didier
> Hi Didier!
>
> I followed your suggestion and installed "ifplugd". It would be nice if that was the default configuration for desktops:-)
>
> Thank you,
> Nik


The backend of simple-netaid also can detect plug/unplug events without
any other server -neither ifplugd nor netplugd-, but there is still work
to do.

I didn't work on it since september, though i have it in mind, of course.

Cheers,

Aitor.