Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 not up when init script returns?

[Hani Duwaik]

On 5/4/06, Matthias Bethke <matthias@×××××××.de> wrote:
>
> I just noticed a strange problem on our server that's just been switched
> to Gentoo:
> It's running dhcpd, which init starts right after bringing up the
> network interface. But dhcpd quits, complaining it couldn't listen on
> eth0 because it had address 0.0.0.0. So it seems the interface isn't
> fully up yet when the init script returns---probably because the
> Broadcom Tigon driver seems to be on the slow side when changing
> parameters, while the CPU is plenty fast. I've now tried to fix it with
> a postup() function that simply does a "sleep 3", but that's pretty
> hacky IMHO. Isn't thatere a way to do it properly? I think the script
> should ensure its jobs are finished before it returns in any case.
>

Have you looked through the '/etc/conf.d/net.example' file?  I'm not too
familiar with DHCP, but the net.example file has this entry:

============================================================

# For passing custom options to dhcpcd use something like the following.
This

# example reduces the timeout for retrieving an address from 60 seconds (the

# default) to 10 seconds.

#dhcpcd_eth0="-t 10"
=============================================================

Not sure if it will help, but maybe increasing the wait time might work.

-Hani
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