WiredRevolution.com » timeout http://www.wiredrevolution.com A Bit of Linux Wisdom Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:45:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Set DHCP timeout in Gentoo http://www.wiredrevolution.com/gentoo/set-dhcp-timeout-in-gentoo?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=set-dhcp-timeout-in-gentoo http://www.wiredrevolution.com/gentoo/set-dhcp-timeout-in-gentoo#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:27:21 +0000 Ryan http://www.wiredrevolution.com/?p=608
The default DHCP timeout is nearly 30 seconds on most Gentoo Linux systems. This can be a frustrating on startup if you already have wireless connected but are forced to wait on an unused ethernet interface. On most networks the DHCP timeout can be safely lowered without problems. DHCP can be provided by many different [...] Related posts
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The default DHCP timeout is nearly 30 seconds on most Gentoo Linux systems. This can be a frustrating on startup if you already have wireless connected but are forced to wait on an unused ethernet interface. On most networks the DHCP timeout can be safely lowered without problems.

DHCP can be provided by many different modules, but I am assuming that you have the dhcpcd client installed for this example.

To change the timeout you need to add the following line to the networking configuration file located at /etc/conf.d/net.

dhcpcd_eth0="-t 3"

This line will set the DHCP timeout to 3 seconds for the ‘eth0‘ interface.

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