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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] timeouts with dhcpcd 5.1
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:38:10 +0100
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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.