Re: Dealing with Unreliable Serial Bus (USB NIC)

From: Linnix (me_at_linnix.info-for.us)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: 28 Aug 2004 08:33:54 -0700

Dave Stanton <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:<pan.2004.08.28.07.03.44.592702@privacy.net>...
> > What would be a reasonable hack?
> >
> > 1. Hacking dhcpcd to not timeout or fail?
> > 2. Merging the dhcpcd function into the NIC driver?
> > 3. Building additional monitoring process?
> >
> > Comments and/or suggestions are welcome. Thanks.
>
> Why are you doing this over USB ?

This particular box does not have standard bus extensions. The
customers have lots of them as paper weight. We are helping them to
make use of the box with minimum cost. Currently, they have to
manually power-cycle the USB-NIC and restarting dhcpcd. They would
prefer to have it up unattended, in case of power lost. The boxes are
powered up all the time.

>
> Dave