Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (807 mails)

[Marc Chamberlin <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a system acting as a gateway for my SOHO network, running
openSuSE11.2 x86_64 which as two different NICs installed. eth0 is my
external network interface and eth1 is my internal network interface.
Both are configured to initialize during boot up and I use the
traditional ifup/ifdown method of controlling my network. eth0 will set
up just fine during boot up and be fully functional by the time the KDE
desktop is up an running.  But eth1 is taking several minutes (from
after the KDE desktop is up and running) before it comes online. This
temporarily breaks several services such as Named, DHCP, James (my email
server), though when eth1 finally gets up an running these services do
start up automatically as well. BUT this also causes problems on other
computers on my internal network... What is worse however is that I
mount several remote disk directories from fstab and these mounts do NOT
automatically establish themselves until I manually do a mount -a as
superuser on this gateway/server. And that breaks other services such as
vsftp and bacula. This is a serious problem for me, as this system MUST
be able to reboot and come up ok with all these services running without
my attendance.  (I run this system remotely and use a crude means of
keeping the system working, i.e. I use a device called iBoot which will
power cycle any computer which stops responding to pings from it...
hence the reason it must be able to reboot without my attendance...)

So how do I debug and fix this slow startup of eth1? I would really
prefer to fix this issue and not find/use workarounds.. Any help offered
sure will be appreciated, I am stuck and have ran out of ideas myself...

    Marc...


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