On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 16:35 +1200, Robert Fisher wrote: > Yes it is Kanotix > I do not know what DHCP client it uses - and the machine is not here at the > moment.
it looks like you have the dhcp-client package then. the instructions assume the dhcp3-client package but it makes no difference apart from where the dhclient.conf file is found. > > ..but when we edit configuration files by hand, we can pretend we're one > > of those elite hackers in the movies. > > Yes but my original question was - how do I change/shorten the time it tries > to find an address from DHCP. i'm confused. is your DHCP working the way you want it to now? - neil
