[gentoo-user] Startup Script Help

[Drew Tomlinson]

Every time there's a power outage at my home, my Gentoo box fails to 
start.  This is because it attempts to configure the network via DHCP 
before my DHCP server has finished its startup.  Thus I'm trying to 
think of a way to get the Gentoo box to "wait" a few minutes if DHCP 
fails on boot up.  I've thought about making a simple script with the 
'sleep' command and putting it in the boot runlevel but I really don't 
want it to wait on every reboot.  Thus it seems there must be a way to 
modify the network startup script so that if DHCP fails, then it sleeps 
before trying again.  Then maybe after so many DHCP failures, it finally 
uses a static configuration.  However my scripting knowledge is limited 
so if someone would point me in the right direction, I'd really 
appreciate it.

Thanks,
Drew

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