Subject: Re: dhcp timeout on boot
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Mon Sep 23 2002 - 09:15:34 AKDT
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 07:35, James Zuelow wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Justin Dieters" <enderak@gci.net>
> To: <aklug@aklug.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 11:20 PM
> Subject: dhcp timeout on boot
>
>
> >
> > Is there a way to set the dhcp timeout when loading a network device?
> >
> > When I don't have my laptop plugged in to the network and I boot up,
> it
> > sits there waiting for several minutes trying to get a DHCP server to
> > give it it's info. Control-C doesn't cancel it, so I have to sit
> there
> > waiting for it (for what seems like an eternity :) )
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Justin
>
> It depends on which dhcp client you're using. Debian by default uses
> dhclient, controlled in /etc/dhcp.conf. From man dhcp.conf:
>
> The timeout statement determines the amount of time that
> must pass between the time that the client begins to try
> to determine its address and the time that it decides that
> it's not going to be able to contact a server. By
> default, this timeout is sixty seconds.
>
> Other distributions use pump as their default dhcp client. A quick
> check of the pump manpage didn't say anything about a timeout, but I was
> looking on a system that does not actually use dhcp, so pump might not
> be fully installed. There is an /etc/pump.conf that does not have a
> manpage on systems I can check.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
BTW, control-C does work for dhclient, on Debian installs.
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