Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 17:24:04 -0500 From: Gary Schrock <gary@eyelab.psy.msu.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A @home problem Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000328172133.018bba50@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20000328221731.OWYR14153.mail2.rdc3.on.home.com@asus>
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At 05:18 PM 3/28/2000 +0500, Pete Young wrote: >On 23 Mar 00, at 13:23, Elonzo Taylor wrote: > > > > I tried your dhcp setup , but came accross a problem. It detected the > > ether ed0 on the freebsd box ,but after 6 tries it timed out . saying > > host sleeping > >Did you add > >ifconfig_ed0="DHCP" Actually, I suspect the problem is that @home can be very slow to respond to dhcp requests (I've heard stories of it taking up to an hour for the server to respond). There's a way to increase the timeout on waiting, I think it might just be timeout somelargenumber; in the dhcp config file. I had to do this once when setting up a machine, but don't remember exactly what the value was, and I can't check it conveniently. Gary Schrock gary@eyelab.msu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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