On 5/12/2006 9:51 AM Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 12 May 2006 09:23:06 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
Every time there's a power outage at my home, my Gentoo box fails to
start. This is because it attempts to configure the network via DHCP
before my DHCP server has finished its startup. Thus I'm trying to
think of a way to get the Gentoo box to "wait" a few minutes if DHCP
fails on boot up. I've thought about making a simple script with the
'sleep' command and putting it in the boot runlevel but I really don't
want it to wait on every reboot. Thus it seems there must be a way to
modify the network startup script so that if DHCP fails, then it sleeps
before trying again. Then maybe after so many DHCP failures, it
finally uses a static configuration.
You can do all this in /etc/conf.d/net
# set the dhcp timeout to 3 minutes
dhcpcd_eth0="-t 180"
# create static fallback options
fallback_eth0=( "192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" )
fallback_route_eth0=( "default via 192.168.0.1" )
See /etc/conf.d/net.example
Thanks to all of you for the replies. The above seems to be the
simplest/best option for me. I will try this out and report my results.
Thanks,
Drew
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