dhclient in background?

2003-01-10 Thread Dario Freni
Hi everybody. I'm a developer of the FreeSBIE project (just another FreeBSD-on-a-live-cd project). As default network configuration, we've reasonally chosen a dhcp configuration, which is great on a dhcp network, but ugly when it has to wait for timeout. I also had the same problem with my

Re: dhclient in background?

2003-01-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 21:16, Dario Freni wrote: Hi everybody. I'm a developer of the FreeSBIE project (just another FreeBSD-on-a-live-cd project). As default network configuration, we've reasonally chosen a dhcp configuration, which is great on a dhcp network, but ugly when it has to wait for

Re: dhclient in background?

2003-01-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:13:34PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 21:16, Dario Freni wrote: Hi everybody. I'm a developer of the FreeSBIE project (just another FreeBSD-on-a-live-cd project). As default network configuration, we've reasonally chosen a dhcp

Re: dhclient in background?

2003-01-10 Thread Dario Freni
Reply to both and in ML You could use the timeout option in dhclient.conf.. IMHO it's a risk. From man dhclient: The client can also be instructed to become a daemon imme- diately, rather than waiting until it has acquired an IP address. This can be done by

Re: dhclient in background?

2003-01-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:03:57PM +0100, Dario Freni wrote: Reply to both and in ML You could use the timeout option in dhclient.conf.. IMHO it's a risk. From man dhclient: The client can also be instructed to become a daemon imme- diately, rather than waiting