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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 finally |
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> uses a static configuration. However my scripting knowledge is limited |
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> so if someone would point me in the right direction, I'd really |
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> appreciate it. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Drew |
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You want ifplugd. |
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It will allow you to boot the machine even if there is not DHCP response |
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and then do the appropriate action when the DHCP server comes back up. |
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Try that out, maybe it will suit your needs. |
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