[ltp] R60: eth0 down when cable is pulled

[Richard Neill]

Felix E. Klee wrote:
> Someone just called me and told me that whenever he pulls the network
> cable from an R60, then the network interface goes down.  I promised him
> to ask on this mailing list.  Sorry, I only have somewhat vague details.
> 

You're almost certainly running a daemon such as ifplugd.
This is supposed to automatically bring the network up/down when 
hotplugged.  (Also see ifplugstatus )

Solution is to reconfigure the daemon, kill it, or uninstall it. 
However, why would you actually want to do this? If you want to connect 
to your local machine, then access it as localhost, or 127.0.0.1

HTH,

Richard



> For example, given that eth0 is assigned IP 192.168.0.5:
> 
> * He can ping 192.168.0.5 locally, if the network cable is inserted.
> 
> * 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.
> 
> What may be the cause of the problem/feature?
> 
> I've never experienced this problem, but I don't have an R60.  Some
> details about the machine in question:
> 
> * OS: SUSE 10.2
> 
> * Product ID: 9461-5FG
>