[scyld-users] Re: Long eth0 timeout on boot

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Tom Camerlinck wrote:

> Anyway, the most common complaint so far is the time folks have to
> wait while the laptop is booting and trying obtain an IP address via
> DHCP while it is not connected to an ethernet network (i.e. they're on
> the road or at home dialing into our network.)

Add
  DHCPCDARGS="-t 4"
to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 

BTW, there is no point in a longer timeout, and a specifying a shorter
timeout won't be effective.

% cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
DHCPCDARGS="-t 4"

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