Hi! On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 07:57:42PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> - It makes use of the more reliable (newer) ETHTOOL ioctl()s. miid's > author reports some problems with Apple TiBooks. I'd guess they go > away when using ifplugd. (ifplugd falls back to the old ioctl()s, when > the ETHTOOL ioctl()s fail.) That sounds interesting. > - It may beep on successful (or failed) interface configuration or > when the plug is pulled/connected Ideally, I would like this to be an option. > - Has a --ignore-fail mode which makes it compatible with PCMCIA > network drivers, which are not loaded all the time I don't understand what this option does/how you use it. > - And most important: it works. miid doesn't. At least on my > machine. First miid did not want to startup because the interface > wasn't up. This is somewhat a paradoxon, I think. After doing > "ifconfig eth0 up" by hand miid simply locked up my machine. After > rebooting I got miid working for 2 minutes, than my machine locked > up again. this simply doesn't occur with ifplugd. The need of > "ifconfig eth0 up" may be caused by some strangeness of the 8193too > driver I am using. However, ifplugd works around this > maybe-bug. miid is unusable on my machine, while ifplugd is. This looks very interesting to me, since I have a laptop with a RTL8139C-based builtin NIC, and miid does not work fine on this laptop. However, I consider this as a bug in the kernel 8139too module, not a bug in miid. But miid works on my other laptop. I will probably give ifplugd a try soon... > - Different delays for setting an interface up and down. This is quite > useful, since you mostly want to use networking immediately when you > plug your cable in. Thus you set the up-delay to 0. However, you > may want to unplug the cable for a short time without having the network > shut > down. Thus you set the down-delay to 10. (or something like this) > miid doesn't distuinguish between these to times. That looks like a good idea. > I cannot see any disadvantages of ifplugd over miid. > > I vote for ifplugd! While this may be true with your hardware, are you sure ifplugd works everywhere miid works? I consider Debian does not need several miid/ifplugd-like packages. I wish you wil try to work with Graeme and give Debian a single perfectly-working miid/ifplugd/whateveritiscalled package. Regards, Nicolas
