[PLUG] skipping DHCP during boot

[Kenneth G. Stephens]

Phil,

There is an option for dhcpcd that sets timeout.  Do a man on dhcpcd (Nice
way to say RTFM).  Then edit your /sbin/ifup to include that option.  You
want 30 seconds, then the option would be -t 30.  Find in the ifup script
where it invokes dhcpcd and add that option in there.  BTW
www.google.com/linux is your friend when learning Linux.  Almost any
question can be answered searching with this engine.  Of course the biggest
problem then becomes "how to phrase the question".

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org
> [mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org]On Behalf Of Phil Tomson
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 8:24 PM
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: [PLUG] skipping DHCP during boot
>
>
> 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.  It seems that I recall that there is some way to
> skip a something like network setup while booting - some conrol-key
> sequence or other - how is it done?
>
> Phil