Hi Justin, Thanks for your response.
With broadband connection it takes about 3-4 minutes. Without connection it takes longer time. (Without broadband connected) /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 looks as follows ; DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes Any reconfiguration I have to make. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu At 01:12 PM 1/3/2002 -0600, you wrote: >If you mean that it takes forever and a day to realize that it's not on >the network, than pass a timeout value by adding the line: > >DHCPCDARGS="-t 10" > >to the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. > >That makes the DHCP client give up after 10 seconds. > >HTH, > >Justin > >On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 10:34, Stephen Liu wrote: > > Hi All People, > > > > RH 7.2 > > > > Each time on booting when it comes to detecting "Bringup interface eth0" > > it takes quite long time to detect it, disregarding whether broadband > cable > > connected or disconnected. > > > > Is there any way to accelerate its detection. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > B.R. > > Stephen Liu _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list