[PLUG] Sony Vaio Wireless Connectivity: One Step Closer

[Russell Johnson]

On Apr 18, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Mike Connors wrote:

At this point it makes no sense to assume anything. I'm not sure what
> NTPD's role is and how it's interacting with the networking. But I do know
> that after the "deleting eth0" entries in the message log. Eth0 is in the
> "down" state, with no ip address and the default gateway entry for eth0 is
> removed from the routing table.

I've been using and configuring ntp servers and clients for 10 years. What you are seeing is happening in this order:

1: the interface is going down.
2: ntpd notices it going down and removes the interface from its in memory config. 

So the log entries you are seeing are the result of the interface going down, not the result of ntp taking the interface down. 

I'm positing that the reason you don't see the same behavior on the sony is that something is blocking the command to take the interface down, so ntp isn't able to notice it down, so it never removes the entry from its in memory config. 

If I were debugging this, I would try the install without any special network configuration, i.e. completely stock. Maybe even while at the coffee shop. See if I could get it to work properly without any special configs. 

Russell Johnson
russ at dimstar.net