iftab breaks if interface already exists
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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udev (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Hi,
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The madwifi-ng code creates two devices since beginning of this year, one wifi* to control the hardware and one ath* to use with the wireless extensions (you can create several ath*/SSIDs per card in new code). Both share the same MAC address, which lets iftab try to rename wifi0 to ath0. This apparently breaks because ath0 exists already, effectively pausing udevplug for about five minutes after some timeout kicks in.
Add "arp 1" on the end of your /etc/iftab lines.
This is now done by default by the installer, which breaks them.
If you still get the hang, then it's a madwifi-ng bug that they're pretending that the wifi0 interface is capable of doing Ethernet