Hoary CD's DHCP didn't work

[Paul Sladen]

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Rick Berger wrote:

Hello Rick,

> A week ago I tried installing Hoary on my new Eurocom laptop. When it
> came to setting up DHCP, it kept timing out.

I've seen issues with the DHCP setup on D-Link wifi/DSL routers.

> So I just installed what ever was on the CD. I have tested the network
> interface and got it talking to my other boxes using static ips.

> I'd like to try setting up DHCP again, can some one tell me what script
> is used for setting up DHCP?

dhclient is used if you set an network interface in
'/etc/network/interfaces' to be 'dhcp'.

> Also how can one change the timeout on it?

I've tried some fiddling to improve the retry time (particularly for
unreliable wifi networks) and I'm currently testing the following values in
'/etc/dhclient.conf':

  timeout 10;
  retry 1;
  reboot 3;
  select-timeout 2;
  initial-interval 1;

Hope that helps, your distance may vary.

	-Paul
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