On 04 May 2006 18:19, Hani Duwaik wrote: > On 5/4/06, Matthias Bethke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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" > =============================================================
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