[Netconf-devel] quick wishlist

[Thomas Hood]

martin f krafft wrote:
> if I configure an interface through ifup with DHCP and it fails to
> get a lease (T-Mobile is fucking incapable of running proper DHCP
> servers -- heck, their entire network just stinks), the dhclient
> process is backgrounded and the interface left configured. I am not
> sure this is the best way to do things. I'd like to check out use of
> the -1 flag, which causes dhclient to fail when it can't get a lease
> on first try. This would cause ifup not to mark the interface
> configured.


I attempted to get such changes into the experimental version of
ifupdown.  Unfortunately the package maintainer refused to cooperate.
Fortunately, mobile users will soon be able to use network-manager
instead of ifupdown.  I am already using it in Breezy.

-- 
Thomas Hood