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Yes, the box is a laptop. It is sometimes connected to a broadband gateway which gives out an IP address via DHCP, but sometimes not. If it is disconnected everything (as Brook Humphrey noted) runs extremely slowly. I did: "chkconfig --level 2345 network off", but this only turned off networking on the next boot. I have observed in gkrellm that when i physically disconnect the machine while it is up, after a while it will start trying to send 60 bytes of information every second for 3 seconds and then do a 2 second pause before resuming. Presumably it is querying the gateway. However it just doesn't give up. Ideally it would give up after a couple of tries. I checked /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX, but it only contains the following 4 lines: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes I'll check out the -t option for dhcpd. Where is the config file specifying how dhcpd should be started at boot? Thanks, Sascha On Sunday 29 December 2002 11:59 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > Sascha, > > I'm guessing that you have a box that is sometimes connected > sometimes not.. like a laptop. If so a dirty fix would be simply doing > chkconfig --level 2345 network off.... which would then mean a manual > start when you do want it to go. Or is this a DHCP timeout? if so > passing the -t option (from the man dhcpcd manpage) allows you to set > the time it will try to get a lease. I believe but have never tried it > this would be set in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX where X > is your NIC. > > James > > On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 11:41, Sascha Noyes wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Is there some way to shorten the time that bootup spends on trying to > > connect to the internet if there is eg. no physical connection. Maybe > > someone can point me to the Mandrake script that handles this. If enough > > people think this is useful, I'll put an enhancement proposal on bugzilla > > for specifying the time bootup should spend on connecting to the internet > > in MCC. > > > > Thanks, > > Sascha Noyes > > - -- > > Please encrypt all correspondence. > > PGP key available from: > > http://individual.utoronto.ca/noyes/snoyes.asc > > - -- > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQE+D0/vgzJdfX+cTW8RAn0IAJ4j6ymyX8nZi/VD3KQkH7vWRXBzWgCfbP55 > > poO4vKe/3EGT9kV6Lx3nph0= > > =9ieL > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - -- Please encrypt all correspondence. PGP key available from: http://individual.utoronto.ca/noyes/snoyes.asc - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+EC+8gzJdfX+cTW8RAnKlAKCnvTAX4HD7zGcS0bBVn+NRpFKTXgCdEgfb oxSg6yw2c3FFal5cu/xAXek= =hQ5a -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
