[gentoo-user] DHCP Timeout Val not working

[gentoo-user] DHCP Timeout Val not working

[Kurt Guenther]

I have Gentoo on my laptop and I'm frequently not connected to the 
network.  I had the DHCP timeout set to decent number and it worked for 
quite a while.  However, it seemed to quite working at some point.   My 
/etc/conf.d/net has:

config_eth0=( "dhcp" )
dhcpcd_eth0="-t 15"

But, it seems to be back to the default of 60 (feels more like 3 
minutes).   I tried playing w/ /etc/conf.d/dhcp with no luck.   What 
could be wrong?

--Kurt




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Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP Timeout Val not working

[Andrew Frink]

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i belive the newest stable x86 baslayout is set to background the
net.ethxscripts after 5 seconds of somesuch
-Cynyr

On 1/18/06, Kurt Guenther <kurtg@serent.com> wrote:
>
>
> I have Gentoo on my laptop and I'm frequently not connected to the
> network.  I had the DHCP timeout set to decent number and it worked for
> quite a while.  However, it seemed to quite working at some point.   My
> /etc/conf.d/net has:
>
> config_eth0=( "dhcp" )
> dhcpcd_eth0="-t 15"
>
> But, it seems to be back to the default of 60 (feels more like 3
> minutes).   I tried playing w/ /etc/conf.d/dhcp with no luck.   What
> could be wrong?
>
> --Kurt
>
>
>
>
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>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP Timeout Val not working

[Kurt Guenther]

Andrew Frink wrote:
> i belive the newest stable x86 baslayout is set to background the 
> net.ethx scripts after 5 seconds of somesuch
> -Cynyr

Thanks for the response.

I'm on ~x86.  AFAIK, it doesn't fork until dhcpd gets an address or 
times out.

--Kurt

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Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP Timeout Val not working

[Richard Fish]

On 1/18/06, Kurt Guenther <kurtg@serent.com> wrote:
>
> I have Gentoo on my laptop and I'm frequently not connected to the
> network.  I had the DHCP timeout set to decent number and it worked for

Not a direct answer to your question, but you should check out
ifplugd.  It will allow your system to only bring up the network when
you are actually connected, so you don't have to wait for a dhcp
timeout when booting.

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP Timeout Val not working

[Kurt Guenther]

Richard Fish wrote:
> On 1/18/06, Kurt Guenther <kurtg@serent.com> wrote:
>   
>> I have Gentoo on my laptop and I'm frequently not connected to the
>> network.  I had the DHCP timeout set to decent number and it worked for
>>     
>
> Not a direct answer to your question, but you should check out
> ifplugd.  It will allow your system to only bring up the network when
> you are actually connected, so you don't have to wait for a dhcp
> timeout when booting.
>
> -Richard
>
>   

Thanks!  I like it.


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