devlist="$devlist $device"
done
- # this is tricky (and ugly) because ipconfig sometimes just hangs/runs into
- # an endless loop; if execution fails give it two further tries, that's
- # why we use '$devlist $devlist $devlist' for the other for loop
- for dev in $devlist $devlist $devlist
+ for dev in $devlist
do
echo "Executing ipconfig -t $ETHDEV_TIMEOUT $dev"
- ipconfig -t "$ETHDEV_TIMEOUT" $dev | tee -a /netboot.config &
- jobid=$!
- sleep "$ETHDEV_TIMEOUT" ; sleep 1
- if [ -r /proc/"$jobid"/status ]
- then
- echo "Killing job $jobid for device $dev as ipconfig ran into recursion..."
- kill -9 $jobid
- fi
+ ipconfig -t "$ETHDEV_TIMEOUT" $dev | tee -a /netboot.config
# if configuration of device worked we should have an assigned
# IP address, if so let's use the device as $DEVICE for later usage.
# simple and primitive approach which seems to work fine
- if ifconfig $dev | grep -q 'inet.*addr:'
+ if ifconfig $dev | grep -q -E 'inet.*addr:|inet [0-9][0-9]*.[0-9][0-9]*.[0-9][0-9]*.[0-9][0-9]*'
then
export DEVICE="$dev"
break