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 1Mlz3Z-0004O0-A9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:52:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C83A6E09B5; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:52:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wlym.com (wlym.com [66.135.63.43]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 892FCE09B5 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:52:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (pool-70-109-54-11.clppva.fios.verizon.net [70.109.54.11]) (authenticated bits=128) by wlym.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n8B5qLVZ022707 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:52:22 -0500 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n8B5qHpW005402 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:52:20 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1 In-reply-to: References: <30814.1252637366@ccs.covici.com> <4AA9CF51.1090605@optushome.com.au> Comments: In-reply-to Stroller message dated "Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:38:10 +0100." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.1.1 Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:52:17 -0400 Message-ID: <5401.1252648337@ccs.covici.com> From: covici@ccs.covici.com 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 X-Archives-Salt: 86881a9c-e0e2-4bb8-a87e-a150c152f67f X-Archives-Hash: ae8aeb662267ffe3099bd6e1bd5d124d 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. 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. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com