Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> 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 <ifname>" will do it. Or put
> > 'dhcpcd_<ifname>="-
> > 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 <snark> the OP would find it in the manpage. </snark>
However, when I put the -d, it didn't tell me anything except that
dhcpcd sent several discover packets and then said timeout, so my
original question still remains -- why a timeout with 5.1 with the same
dhcpcd.conf and no timeout with 4.0.13.

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