From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mlyde-0001oa-TW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:25:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C6E2E0654; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:25:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail03.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail03.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.184]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82698E0654 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:25:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.50] ([59.154.26.81]) (authenticated sender johnmoe) by mail03.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n8B5PSoZ010454 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:25:34 +1000 Message-ID: <4AA9E04B.2070809@optushome.com.au> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:29:47 +1000 From: "John H. Moe" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090907 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1 References: <30814.1252637366@ccs.covici.com> <4AA9CF51.1090605@optushome.com.au> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d06d6a1a-b46f-44ae-9454-c2b794e24808 X-Archives-Hash: c8d9605d1ee44e882a1c08c8d04eaa9f Stroller wrote: > > On 11 Sep 2009, at 05:17, John H. Moe wrote: >> Stroller wrote: >>> On 11 Sep 2009, at 03:49, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: >>> >>>> Hi. I had a strange problem when I emerge dhcpcd 5.1 I get a timeout >>>> when trying to get a lease -- it says broadcasting for a lease and >>>> times >>>> out .... >>> >>> I'm pretty sure you can start dhcpcd with a verbose flag. >>> >> Sure can. "dhcpcd -d " will do it. Or put 'dhcpcd_="-d"' >> in your /etc/conf.d/net to have it always show the output during boot. > > > Ah, splendid! > > I didn't feel the need to to look up that information because I was > sure the OP would find it in the manpage. > > Stroller. > > You know, I almost didn't click on send, because I had a fleeting thought that you might have used that reasoning. Always go with your first instinct, eh? :-P