From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 14:25:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from eyelab.psy.msu.edu (eyelab.psy.msu.edu [35.8.64.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A5D837C0AB for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:25:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gary@eyelab.psy.msu.edu) Received: from devel-eyelab (eyelab.psy.msu.edu [35.8.64.179]) by eyelab.psy.msu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA60896 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 17:25:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gary@eyelab.psy.msu.edu) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000328172133.018bba50@localhost> X-Sender: gary@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 17:24:04 -0500 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Gary Schrock Subject: Re: A @home problem In-Reply-To: <20000328221731.OWYR14153.mail2.rdc3.on.home.com@asus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 05:18 PM 3/28/2000 +0500, Pete Young wrote: >On 23 Mar 00, at 13:23, Elonzo Taylor wrote: > > > > I tried your dhcp setup , but came accross a problem. It detected the > > ether ed0 on the freebsd box ,but after 6 tries it timed out . saying > > host sleeping > >Did you add > >ifconfig_ed0="DHCP" Actually, I suspect the problem is that @home can be very slow to respond to dhcp requests (I've heard stories of it taking up to an hour for the server to respond). There's a way to increase the timeout on waiting, I think it might just be timeout somelargenumber; in the dhcp config file. I had to do this once when setting up a machine, but don't remember exactly what the value was, and I can't check it conveniently. Gary Schrock gary@eyelab.msu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message