On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 09:45, Jason Tower wrote: > a handy tip for those folks running linux on a laptop: > > if you set the network interface(s) to be dhcp clients (as most people do) > it can take a long time for the startup script to timeout when a dhcp > server is not available. this can be alleviated by adding the line > "DHCP_TIMEOUT=X" where X is the number of seconds before it times out to > /etc/sysconfig/network. worked like a charm on my mandrake 10.1 laptop. > > jason
Sweet nugget of knowledge! Thanks. This will help me at a few clients that don't allow DHCP responses to unregistered MAC addresses. It's always been a minor irritant to have to wait for it to fail before moving on with the rest of the boot processes. Thanks again - Jon -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
