--- Sascha Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 30 December 2002 01:10 pm, David Walser > wrote: > > --- Sascha Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'll check out the -t option for dhcpd. Where is > the > > > config file specifying > > > how dhcpd should be started at boot? > > > > dhcpcd you mean, but you need to set the variable: > > DHCP_TIMEOUT > > in /etc/sysconfig/network to whatever you want the > > timeout to be, see dhcpcd's manpage for more info. > > > > OK, I set that variable to 20 seconds. However, the > real problem is still not > solved. Now, instead of waiting for 60 seconds, I > can wait 20 seconds for > _any_ program to start when I am not connected. The > only solution that I can > think of now would be a manual intervention (eg. > open MCC, type root > password, goto system, goto services, stop network). > Ideally I would like my > machine to function normally after a network > disconnect without manual > intervention. Is there no way to specify that dhcpcd > should not be invoked > unless there is an action carried out that > expressedly needs to send/fetch > data over the network?
>From what someone said earlier, maybe it's trying to do host lookups. Maybe the problem would be worked around if you ran your own nameserver locally. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
