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Re: Passing "nowait" command line option to "dhclient"



On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 03:09:45PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Steffen Dettmer wrote:
> > When booting and one of the DHCP interfaces has no cable attached,
> > booting is delayed about around 60 seconds (seems to be value of
> > dhclient.conf:timeout).
> 
> Why isn't your DHCP server responding?  Your dhcp server should
> respond quickly and provide an IP address.  If it is not then look
> there to solve the problem.  Debug your dhcp problems first.

Steffen did say as quoted above that a cable is not attached to an
interface. No response from the dhcp server is correct in this case,
so nothing to debug.

Greg


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