Date: 10 Jan 2003 23:13:34 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Dario Freni <saturnero@freesbie.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient in background? Message-ID: <1042202613.936.7.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20030110114622.6ac1264d.saturnero@freesbie.org> References: <20030110114622.6ac1264d.saturnero@freesbie.org>
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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
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