like many peoples, I placed net.eth0 in my rc default but on my laptop, it is not the best, because the cable is not plug in all the time. I try removing it and doing the connection by hand.. but there is nothing as much annoying. anyway,... when establishing network connection, the script does not check if the cable is connected or not and dhcpcd handle it really bad. so I modify the script to do the check... it basically now have a 5 seconds time out, instead of something like 30-60 secs change starting at line 113 ____________________________ ebegin "Bringing ${IFACE} up via DHCP" ifconfig ${IFACE} up waitingsec=3 # IFACE_WAITING_SEC ? R=`iface_running ${IFACE}` while [ $waitingsec -gt 0 -a "$R" != "0" ] do sleep 1 waitingsec=`expr $waitingsec - 1` R=`iface_running ${IFACE}` done R=`iface_running ${IFACE}` if [ "$R" == "0" ] then /sbin/dhcpcd ${dhcpcd_IFACE} ${IFACE} retval=$? else retval=6969 fi eend $retval if [[ $retval == 0 ]]; then # DHCP succeeded, show address retrieved _________________________ this is probably not the best way to fix, it but I like it better. now, how I have to do left is to trigger dhcpcd when the cable get inserted.... but how ?
set the timeout yourself in /etc/conf.d/net
