From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 10 13:16:35 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D5D7106566B for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:16:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 534608FC12 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:16:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3E6D2EBC0A; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:16:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:16:33 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Ley Message-Id: <20090910091633.a220e2c3.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.5; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About DHCP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:16:35 -0000 In response to Ley : > I heared that freebsd will boots very slow if enables dhcp. Is that true? I > am a adsl user and I can not get a certain IP, how can I make freebsd boots > fast? If DHCP makes the system boot slowly, then it's not FreeBSD's fault. DHCP addresses are acquired very quickly if the DHCP server is working properly and not overloaded. Even with a slow DHCP server, I've seldom seen it take longer than a few seconds. What is your usage case that this is such a concern? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/