Setting the timeout for the network card

[Jason Shein]

On March 18, 2005 02:58 pm, Jim Skehill wrote:
> I'm running Mandrake 9.2 on a laptop with a Wireless and a Network card.
>
> When I start up without a network cable plugged into the network card (i.e.
> using a wireless connection) it takes around a minute longer then when it
> is plugged in. I assume that this is because the startup sequence is
> repeatedly trying the network card connection before eventually timing out.
>
> Does anyone know where this timeout is set? I'd like to shorten it.
>
> Regards,
> Jim.
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Changing this in Mandrake 9.2 should be as follows:

open /etc/sysconfig/network

Add a line as below:

DHCP_TIMEOUT=#  
where # is replaced by the number of seconds you would like to wait


In a Gentoo environment you would edit /etc/conf.d/net(interface_name_here)

and add or edit the following line

dhcpcd_eth0="-t #"
where # is replaced by the number of seconds you would like to wait

Hope this helps.

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