On Mon,21.Jul.08, 10:28:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun,20.Jul.08, 23:51:56, Mike Bird wrote: > > On Sun July 20 2008 23:44:55 Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > I think I'm missing something obvious, but how can DHCP succeed before > > > the AP authentication? > > > > You're right, it can't. But if there's a way to make > > DHCP wait for AP authentication I haven't found it. > > Fortunately, DHCP retries a few times. > > This sounds like a bug in ifupdown, as I thing DHCP should not be > started before the interface signals it has link up. > > As to your original problem, I think a hackish fix would be to put a > 'touch somefile' as post-up in interfaces file and then have the openvpn > script check for this file. I can't bet on it, but I think ifupdown > already creates such a file somewhere in /var/run.
See also #120382 and #237155 for some tips and patches. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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