On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 09:13:02PM +1300, Andrew McMillan wrote: > Don't forget that you can tweak you DHCP settings to make it not wait so > long.
Ah, now that's a good idea. What about adding a note to the whereami documentation for testdhcp? > This is what I do to set my timeout down to two seconds - I don't know > of a LAN that wouldn't respond to DHCP in sub-second time. Well, many people configure their DHCP server to ping an IP address and wait for 1 second before offering the lease (the ping-check configuration flag for dhcpd), so 3 or 4 seconds is perhaps better 'just in case'. For dhclient, the timeout is configured by adding this to /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf: timeout 4; Chris
