prevent dhclient from exting

From: Arjen Verweij (a.verweij_at_student.tudelft.nl)
Date: 10/17/05

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    Hi,

    I'm looking for a way to keep my box connected. Sometimes the
    connections drops for various reasons:

    - cable removed from modem/nic
    - power outage
    - booted without cable

    The problem is, that dhclient just gives up:
    Oct 17 09:13:29 localhost kernel: eth1: Tx timed out, cable problem?
    TSR=0x0, ISR=0x0, t=15185.
    Oct 17 09:13:30 localhost dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received
    Oct 17 09:13:30 localhost dhclient: No working leases in persistent
    database.
    Oct 17 09:13:30 localhost dhclient: Exiting.

     From this point on, I need physical access to the machine to make it
    connect again. I tried installing ifplugd and configured it for eth1,
    but removing/replugging the cable does not have the desired effect.
    According to syslog nothing happens and dmesg looks uneventful as well.
    Anyhow, if there were a way to have dhclient keep running, I would not
    have this problem, and my box could just regain connectivity itself.

    Can anyone point me in the right direction, so far I have tried man
    dhclient.conf and installed ifplugd for eth1, but no cigar.

    Regards,

    Arjen

    P.S. Please Cc: me on reply. 

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