Interesting programming issue

[Nevyn]

Hi everyone,

I have a bit of a weird networking setup. My server (files and
printer) has 3 nic's. Two of which are passed directly to a vm. So in
effect, it only really has 1 device that it can actually use - and 1
ip address. However, the device does not come up if there is nothing
else on the wired network.

For the most part, this is fine. Though it becomes troublesome when I
need to access that machine directly and nothing else is on (truth be
told, there's only 1 other machine permanently on the wired network
and cables around the place just in case the wireless isn't quite fast
enough).

Is there something anyone can think of that might solve this issue?

Regards,
Nevyn
http://nevsramblings.blogspot.com/

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[Jim Cheetham]

Post by Nevyn
effect, it only really has 1 device that it can actually use - and 1
ip address. However, the device does not come up if there is nothing
else on the wired network.

Do you mean literally nothing else? Not even a switch?

If you are using static configuration from (Debian)
/etc/network/interfaces, then if there is no physical link, the
interface will not be able to come up during startup, and will not
automatically reconfigure itself when link comes up.

Something like the desktop-oriented Network Manager would be able to
handle that for you.

Post by Nevyn
Is there something anyone can think of that might solve this issue?

Get a switch ...

-jim

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