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



Gregory Nowak wrote:
> 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.

Sometimes I can be blind to the most obvious things!

In that case the answer is definitely "allow-hotplug".

Thanks,
Bob

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