reopen 537271 thanks Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Given that there is no possible way to detect that the network link is up > but unuseable,
did you even read #537271? the simple, 100% effective fix for the situation where your port has link up but the bridge port has not entered the forwarding state is to send ARP requests for the default gateway's IP address until they are answered. an IPv4 router must answer ARP requests or it cannot route packets. > the improved DHCP configuration, whereby DHCP DISCOVER packets are > sent every second, is the best possible fix for this (coupled with the > ability to preseed whatever length of DHCP timeout you want). irrelevant for statically configured networks. i.e., servers. -- Robert Edmonds edmo...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
