On Fri, 12 May 2006 09:23:06 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > Every time there's a power outage at my home, my Gentoo box fails to > start. This is because it attempts to configure the network via DHCP > before my DHCP server has finished its startup. Thus I'm trying to > think of a way to get the Gentoo box to "wait" a few minutes if DHCP > fails on boot up. I've thought about making a simple script with the > 'sleep' command and putting it in the boot runlevel but I really don't > want it to wait on every reboot. Thus it seems there must be a way to > modify the network startup script so that if DHCP fails, then it sleeps > before trying again. Then maybe after so many DHCP failures, it > finally uses a static configuration.
You can do all this in /etc/conf.d/net # set the dhcp timeout to 3 minutes dhcpcd_eth0="-t 180" # create static fallback options fallback_eth0=( "192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" ) fallback_route_eth0=( "default via 192.168.0.1" ) See /etc/conf.d/net.example -- Neil Bothwick Orcs aren't all that bad... if you have plenty of ketchup.
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