Network interface dropping?

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raydon

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Sorry, you can't rename it because the root filesystem is in read-only firmware. However, you could create a startup script that just kills the udhcpc process after a short delay (say 60 seconds after boot). I can help you with this if you're not sure how to proceed.

| Mon 17 Feb 2014 18:09:12 #11 |
redpola

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Duh, of course.

I think I can rig this up thanks, unless there's something particularly unusual about the init.d stuff on the Humax?

Thanks!

| Tue 18 Feb 2014 12:26:17 #12 |
raydon

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No, nothing special. You just need to ensure that your script spawns a background task to do the waiting so as not to interfere with the regular boot process. Something like this should do.

#!/bin/sh ( sleep 60 killall udhcpc ) &

| Tue 18 Feb 2014 13:08:32 #13 |
redpola

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... almost verbatim what I'd written.

Thanks mate.

| Tue 18 Feb 2014 13:11:04 #14 |