On 23/11/2008, damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > When I boot my computer I don't want to wait for the dhcp client (in > my case dhclient) to acquire a lease to continue the booting process. > Instead, I would like that the client could be run in the background > (as a daemon) right after it is invoked. > > Reading through the man pages of dhclient it seems like I need to pass > the -nw flag to the client. However. I can't find how to do this. > > Any help is welcomed. It seems like I'm the only one with this issue > (I don't think so) because I can't find in the internet information > about this. > > Thanks in advance, > > Damian.
Hi Damian I had a similar problem with my machine when I first started using Gentoo, but I then discovered sys-apps/netplug. Install that and all should be well. You might want to check your RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING variable (in /etc/conf.d/rc) is the way you want it, but otherwise there isn't any extra configuration required. I realise you've already got your original problem sorted, but hopefully this helps others. Dan
