Router discovery fails on startup

Roger Grosswiler roger at gwch.net
Wed Apr 13 11:06:54 UTC 2005


> Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 09:20 +0200, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>router discovery (rdisc) fails on startup. It seems, that
>>>/etc/sysconfig/rdisc is missing.
>>>
>>>Roger
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>     Hello Roger,
>>
>>     I have been having the same problem as well.  I have a mixed
>>wireless-ethernet network and for some reason, when I start up my
>>wireless laptop (an IBM ThinkPad T30), there is a problem with finding
>>the router.  I can still connect to the internet but I have to do so
>>manually each time I log in.   A minor inconvenience but an
>>inconvenience nevertheless.
>>
>>Jeff
>>
>>
>>
> I saw that 'FAILED' scroll by on boot, and thought I had a problem.  I
> have a NETGEAR RP614 v3 router after my dsl modem.  But everything
> works.  I can connect.  But I continued to get that router detection
> failure message.  I tried disabling rdisc and the 'FAILED' message went
> away, and everything still works.  So, for now, I'll leave it disabled
> until I discover what, if any, problem disabling it might cause.
> owa
>
This is working for you, but doesn't really resolve the problem ;-) I personally think, that all that thing has NOT is
the config that should be (according to /etc/init.d/rdisc) in /etc/sysconfig/.

Gonna look for manpages this evening.

Roger





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