network interface timeout

Gil · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 6:54 am Post subject: network interface timeout

Is there a way to change the timeout of starting a network interface?
In my case, I have Gentoo on my laptop. I set the net.eth0 to start up automatically. However, when I'm on the road, it tries to start up the net.eth0 and timeout after about a minute. Is there a way to shorter the timeout to, let say, 5 seconds?
This also happens when I have the wireless pcmcia plugged in, but no wireless network available...

Thanks.

hadfield · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 7:46 am Post subject:

In the file /conf.d/net add the following:
dhcpcd_eth0="-t 5"

This should set dhcp to time out after 5 seconds.

Scott

Gil · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 7:27 pm Post subject:

[quote="shadfiel"]In the file /conf.d/net add the following:
dhcpcd_eth0="-t 5"

This should set dhcp to time out after 5 seconds.

Scott[/quote]

Works very well. Thanks a lot.