[TriLUG] dhcp timeout

[Jon Carnes]

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 09:45, Jason Tower wrote:
> a handy tip for those folks running linux on a laptop:
> 
> if you set the network interface(s) to be dhcp clients (as most people do)
> it can take a long time for the startup script to timeout when a dhcp
> server is not available.  this can be alleviated by adding the line
> "DHCP_TIMEOUT=X" where X is the number of seconds before it times out to
> /etc/sysconfig/network.  worked like a charm on my mandrake 10.1 laptop.
> 
> jason

Sweet nugget of knowledge!  Thanks.  
This will help me at a few clients that don't allow DHCP responses to
unregistered MAC addresses.  It's always been a minor irritant to have
to wait for it to fail before moving on with the rest of the boot
processes.

Thanks again - Jon