Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

["Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto" <please.no.spam.here@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:02 PM, damian <damian.only@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Thank you all for your responses. After I sent my first email I
> modified the rc config to boot in parallel. The boot process was
> faster after that: just for the record, it takes 20 secs in a core 2
> duo laptop to drop the login prompt without X, wireless supplicant,
> cron daemon or sound.
>
> I will also take a look at ifplug/netplug. Thanks for the tip.
>
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=3#doc_chap3
> Sorry but I already looked into that page, but I couldn't find the
> information I'm looking for. Could you be more explicit?

You wanted to pass options to your dhcp client. The page mentioned
shows two ways of doing that:
1) By setting the variable dhcp_eth0  to a space-delimited string of
options, like
dhcp_eth0="release nodns nontp nonis"
These generic options work for any of the dhclient, dhcpcd, pump and
udhcpc clients.

2) By setting ${CLIENTNAME}_eth0 to a space-delimited string of
options, you can pass any option to your specific client
If you want to pass the -nw option to the dhclient client for the eth0
interface, you would write
dhclient_eth0="-nw"

All this configuration goes in /etc/conf.d/net (at least for
baselayout 1.12.12; I don't know about baslayout 2.0.0)