[TriLUG] dhcp timeout

[Jeff Tickle]

I got sick of waiting and just disabled DHCP on startup...  I figured
there was a timeout somewhere but never got the uber bit of curiosity to
look.

It's a bit different on Gentoo, though, but it still makes sense.
In /etc/conf.d/net, uncomment dhcpcd_etho="" and add the option "-t
##" (for timeout).

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

-Jeff

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 09:45 -0500, 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