From becker at scyld.com Tue Oct 29 17:24:07 2002 From: becker at scyld.com (Donald Becker) Date: Tue Nov 9 01:14:27 2010 Subject: [scyld-users] Re: Long eth0 timeout on boot Message-ID: On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Tom Camerlinck wrote: > Anyway, the most common complaint so far is the time folks have to > wait while the laptop is booting and trying obtain an IP address via > DHCP while it is not connected to an ethernet network (i.e. they're on > the road or at home dialing into our network.) Add DHCPCDARGS="-t 4" to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 BTW, there is no point in a longer timeout, and a specifying a shorter timeout won't be effective. % cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=dhcp DHCPCDARGS="-t 4" -- Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Scyld Beowulf cluster system Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993