On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 21:56 +0200, Seewer Philippe wrote: > David Dillow wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 20:08 +0200, Philippe Seewer wrote: > >> The manpage for dhclient-script says: > >> > >> Before actually configuring the address, dhclient-script should > >> somehow ARP for it and exit with a nonzero status if it receives a > >> reply. > >> > >> By using arping in dracut this is very easy, since arping has a > >> specific option to do just that. > > > >> --- a/modules.d/40network/dhclient-script > >> +++ b/modules.d/40network/dhclient-script > >> @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ case $reason in > >> sleep 1 > >> ;; > >> BOUND) > >> + arping -q -D -c 2 -I $netif $new_ip_address || exit 1 Also, this seems like it is screaming for a message -- it will confuse the user if it just doesn't work without saying why.... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html