Christian Seiler <christ...@iwakd.de> writes: > Am 2015-07-07 14:19, schrieb Rodolfo Medina: >>> You have an interface configured to use WPA and DHCP. This *WILL* take a >>> few seconds. First, your adapter needs to find the Access Point, >>> establish a connection and authenticate using the pre-shared key. Only >>> once that link is established, can the DHCP sequence begin. This >>> involves broadcasting a request packet and then listening for several >>> seconds (this is repeated at varying intervals). Once an acceptable >>> acknowledgement packet is received, then hook scripts are run to set IP, >>> DNS, NTP etc. Only once they are done, can the interface be considered >>> "ready". >> >> I see. But on another machine of mine, I have the same configuration and >> the problem doesn't occur. > > Well, it depends on how long the interface setup takes: some > hardware and driver combinations just might take a bit longer than > others to set everything up. > > systemd has a built-in timeout that if it has to wait longer than > X seconds (X being 10 or 15 or so) for a job to complete, it will > display some information so that the user has an idea of what's > going on with their system (default job timeout before systemd > considers a job failed is 90s, and many people might think their > system to already have crashed, were they forced to wait that long > before seeing any output).
I see. > Note that since you now use allow-hotplug, be aware that you should > be careful with that: if you have ANY boot service that requires an > active network interface, they won't work anymore, even if the setup > of the interface is fast, since systemd will then not order anything > relative to network availability anymore. So if you have NFS > filesystems or similar: don't use allow-hotplug, always use auto! > > Christian It shouldn't be my case. Anyway, thanks for your warning for the future. Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87io9wnkqn....@gmail.com
