Hi, I have a laptop with one wired ethernet interface (eth0) and one wireless interface (eth1). I'm using ifupdown.
When the computer is not connected to a wired network, while starting up, it is associated with my wireless network and requests and receives an IP address with DHCP. That, however, doesn't satisfy the machine. It proceeds by requesting an address for the wired network as well, despite there being no attached network cable, which holds up the boot process until the DHCP client times out and gives up. What I would like to happen in this situation is that the machine would only try to get an address over the wired network interface if it is actually connected to a network. Otherwise it should try the wireless interface directly. Iff connected to a wired network, the system should only try to connect to a wireless network after having failed to acquire an IP address from the wired network. I would like all of this to happen automatically. Is it possible to configure /etc/interfaces like this? Reading interfaces(5) and the examples in /usr/share/doc/ifupdown didn't help me. Thanks, Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
