On 5/12/06, Jeremy Olexa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You want ifplugd.
It will allow you to boot the machine even if there is not DHCP response
and then do the appropriate action when the DHCP server comes back up.
Try that out, maybe it will suit your needs.
Actually I don't think ifplugd will work in this case. It lets the
box come up without a physical network link, but presumably as long as
he had that, the box would still try to come up.
Depending upon what services you run on this box, you might set
RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING="lo" in /etc/conf.d/rc. It will let the net
dependancy be satisfied by just having the local loopback device, and
the box should boot fine (and quickly!). The dhcp client will
continue in the background trying to obtain an address for eth0.
This won't work if you run some services that insist on attaching to
specific addresses...named for example. But most other services
attach to the 'all addresses' interface of 0.0.0,0, so they should be
fine.
-Richard
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