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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:38:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CE7B235D-E7F7-42BC-8E64-446A01B3F8D2@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AA9CF51.1090605@optushome.com.au>


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>

Stroller.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-11  4:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-11  2:49 [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1 covici
2009-09-11  3:37 ` Stroller
2009-09-11  4:17   ` John H. Moe
2009-09-11  4:38     ` Stroller [this message]
2009-09-11  5:29       ` John H. Moe
2009-09-11  5:52       ` covici
2009-09-11 11:17         ` Mick
2009-09-11 15:29           ` covici
2009-09-11 18:36             ` Stroller
2009-09-11 18:52               ` covici

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