[ltp] R60: eth0 down when cable is pulled

[David Bremner]

On 2/22/2007, "Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee@inka.de> wrote:

>
>* If the network cable is removed, then pinging 192.168.0.5 locally
>  doesn't work.  This is not what he wants.  The IP 192.168.0.5 should
>  always be reachable locally.

I can't really deduce what your friend's goals are here, but there
might be
a work-around using e.g. the loopback interface.

>What may be the cause of the problem/feature?

On debian, if ifplugd is installed, this would be an expected behaviour.
Uninstalling ifplugd would do the trick.  I don't know how SUSE manages
interfaces.