From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 10 4:43:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 564F637B401 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 04:43:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net [203.16.214.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB6DE43F3F for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 04:43:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from midget.dons.net.au (ppp635.sa.padsl.internode.on.net [150.101.245.122]) by smtp0.adl1.internode.on.net (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id h0ACherh004754; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 23:13:41 +1030 (CST) Received: (from root@localhost) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) id h0AChd89061570; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 23:13:39 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.12.2/8.12.2av) with ESMTP id h0AChYGH061558; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 23:13:34 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: dhclient in background? From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Dario Freni Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030110114622.6ac1264d.saturnero@freesbie.org> References: <20030110114622.6ac1264d.saturnero@freesbie.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1042202613.936.7.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 10 Jan 2003 23:13:34 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.9 () IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.26 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 21:16, Dario Freni wrote: > Hi everybody. I'm a developer of the FreeSBIE project (just another > FreeBSD-on-a-live-cd project). > As default network configuration, we've reasonally chosen a dhcp > configuration, which is great on a dhcp network, but ugly when it has to > wait for timeout. > I also had the same problem with my mobile-pc, when it's not attached to > my LAN. > We could modify rc.network by adding a & to the dhclient row, but we are > looking for a more efficient way. > Can an optional flag be added (configurable in rc.conf)? You could use the timeout option in dhclient.conf.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message