FS#843 - Network service fails with multiple eth devices

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jeremy Adams (elias4444) - Wednesday, 28 April 2004, 14:54 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.6 Widget
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

On my laptop I have multiple ethernet adapters: an eth0 which is always present (mini-pci), an eth1 (which can either be the docking station built-in ethernet, or pcmcia ethernet), and sometimes eth2 (if in docking station with pcmcia inserted). The devices work fine, but when the network service starts up on boot or via "network restart", it states the service as "failed" if even just one of the devices is not connected to a network (I usually only have one connected at a time).

Maybe be including a flag in the init script? So that if just one device is successful, the network status will return "done" and show as loaded.
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Thursday, 29 April 2004, 17:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Wednesday, 28 April 2004, 22:19 GMT
No, that would be bad behavior for the sysadmin who boots up a server with two PCI NICs in it. He wants to see that FAIL message.

I think you should look into something like quickswitch to manage different network profiles.

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