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On Fri, 12 May 2006 09:23:06 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: |
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> Every time there's a power outage at my home, my Gentoo box fails to |
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> start. This is because it attempts to configure the network via DHCP |
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> before my DHCP server has finished its startup. Thus I'm trying to |
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> think of a way to get the Gentoo box to "wait" a few minutes if DHCP |
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> fails on boot up. I've thought about making a simple script with the |
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> 'sleep' command and putting it in the boot runlevel but I really don't |
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> want it to wait on every reboot. Thus it seems there must be a way to |
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> modify the network startup script so that if DHCP fails, then it sleeps |
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> before trying again. Then maybe after so many DHCP failures, it |
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> finally uses a static configuration. |
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You can do all this in /etc/conf.d/net |
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# set the dhcp timeout to 3 minutes |
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dhcpcd_eth0="-t 180" |
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# create static fallback options |
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fallback_eth0=( "192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" ) |
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fallback_route_eth0=( "default via 192.168.0.1" ) |
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See /etc/conf.d/net.example |
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Neil Bothwick |
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