Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] LiveCDs and DHCP
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 08:37:33
Message-Id: 200405281037.29324.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-releng] LiveCDs and DHCP by John Davis
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4 On Thursday 27 May 2004 22:49, John Davis wrote:
5 > On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 16:46, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
6 > > On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 13:04, Aron Griffis wrote:
7 > > > This is my favorite solution. Running dhcpcd on eth0 satisfies
8 > > > 90% of the users out there. For the rest, the command-line is
9 > > >
10 > > > dhcpcd eth1
11 > > >
12 > > > That's not really much to ask ;-)
13 > >
14 > > But simply putting:
15 > > iface_eth1=dhcp
16 > > iface_eth2=dhcp
17 > >
18 > > in /etc/conf.d/net on the livecd and *touching NOTHING ELSE*
19 > > accomplishes what I want (thanks to hotplug) *without ANY PAUSE*
20 > > unless the interface exists.
21 > >
22 > > How could we not want that? *grin*
23 >
24 > I don't want to assume the user's specific needs ;) Leave it to the
25 > docs. If the user is advanced enough to use 2 nics, they can run
26 > dhcpcd on it.
27
28 You could possibly also specify some options to dhcpd to lower the
29 timeout etc.
30
31 Paul
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