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* [gentoo-user] Can I make dhcpcd run in background when trying to get an ip address?
@ 2005-09-25  3:52 michael
  2005-09-25  5:30 ` Iain Buchanan
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: michael @ 2005-09-25  3:52 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

I have a computer with both a wired and wireless network card. At home I
use the wired connection, but when out I use the wireless.

Normally, I use the default net.eth0 for my wired connection, and my own
script for wireless :

 	ifconfig eth1 up
 	iwconfig eth1 essid "foo"
 	dhcpcd eth1

If I enable them both using rc-update, then if one isn't available (I
only plug in the wired network when I know wireless is not available)
the init process will wait until the dhcpcd times out, which is quite 
long (and it needs to be, because some access points seem to take a 
long time).

Is there some way I can have dhcpcd to run in the background, and to
provide an IP address to my interface when it gets a response from the
server? I seem to remember busybox had script that did this; is there a
general solution?

Thanks,
Michael
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