[PLUG] skipping DHCP during boot (or making delay shorter?)

Peter W shark at sharky.dyndns.org
Fri May 24 08:00:16 UTC 2002


On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 20:24, Phil Tomson wrote:
> On my laptop I use DHCP to get the IP address for eth0 upon bootup.
> However when I'm booting up somewhere and not connected to my network or
> another one with a DHCP server, I have to wait a couple of minutes for
> the network setup script to timeout before it realizes that it's not
> gonna get an address.  

Does anyone know if there is a way to tell the Redhat dhcp client to
only wait for say 30 seconds until it gives up?  I imagine 30 seconds is
really a fine amount of time to wait in all but the slowest networks,
no?

TIA.

~Peter





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