[ale] Pump not-configuring?

[James Kinney]

I think that pump requires that the device be specified. The default is
eth0. pump -i ethx should work after ifconfig ethx up. If the network is
setup to always use dhcp on ethx, restarting networking (with proper
ifcfg-up scripts) should work OK.

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On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote:

> 
> 
>   I have to use DHCP and pump on my firewall.  AT first I couldn't seem to 
> ever get the config set via pump.  While running some tests I found out
> that if I ran pump before configuring the static 192.168 interface (eth1)
> then eth0 came up immediately.  If I ran pump on eth0 after configuring
> eth1 it would constantly reject the config for eth0.  
> 
>   A couple times now, every week or so eth0 has lost it's config, I'm 
> presuming lease renew time, and it wont re-configure eth0, probably
> because eth1 is up.  Has anyone else seen this or know a way to fix it
> other than a cron job to check for eth0, drop eth1, reconfig eth0, and 
> bring eth1 back up.  That seems to microsoft'ish.  
> 
>   This is a debian woody box running the latest verion of pump on a 2.4.0
> kernel.  eth0 is a 3c509, and eth1 is a netgear.
> 
> Thoughts?
>   Robert
> 
> 
> 
> 
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