how to override net boot?

zhooded · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 79

hi all! on boot net runs dhcp and all that stuff waiting until router gives data. this makes me to turn on it everytime i want to use pc. is possible (e.g. doing a script) to wait some seconds and if nothing comes go on?

magic919 · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 12:19 pm Post subject:

ifplugd

zhooded · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Jun 2006 Posts: 79

i don't have that command... how do i implement it? could you please write the whole solution magic919?

magic919 · Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 1:30 pm Post subject:

You need to emerge it. Do a search for how as it has been covered before.

phate · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject:

You coukd just set the DHCP timeout lower, by default it's set to about 2 minutes. Look at /etc/conf.d/net.default or so. 3-5 seconds will do it.