Modify Time-Out Time

[gadolinium]

Hey all.

I am running Mandrake 10.1 Very often, I do not have a network connection available (its a laptop). Booting up without a network connection takes forever because of the long "time-out" time when Mandrake is trying to bring up Eth0 & then Eth2. Is there a place where I can change these values to be maybe - 5 or 10 seconds instead of the long time it is now?

Thanks!

~Anthony

[swemic]

In Mandrake Control Center -> Network & Internet -> Reconfigure ...
You'll find a tab called DHCP, in there you'll find an option "DHCP timout" enter a good value what so ever you feel is comfortable with your setup, me my self has a timeout of 10 sec's which is high enough in my point of view.

Or if you'd preffere to change it from within an editor,
just jump into directory /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
you will find files called ifcfg-<your-eth-dev> which you should edit and add a line DHCP_TIMEOUT=10
Something like this:

DEVICE=ath0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
HWADDR=00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
METRIC=30
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes
WIRELESS_ESSID=tg
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=<yeah yeah, in your wild dream ;&#41; >
DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient
DHCP_HOSTNAME=MyHost
NEEDHOSTNAME=no
PEERDNS=yes
PEERYP=no
PEERNTPD=no
DHCP_TIMEOUT=11

[gadolinium]

In Mandrake Control Center -> Network & Internet -> Reconfigure ...
You'll find a tab called DHCP, in there you'll find an option "DHCP timout" enter a good value what so ever you feel is comfortable with your setup, me my self has a timeout of 10 sec's which is high enough in my point of view.

Thanks! I'll give that a try!!

[gadolinium]

In Mandrake Control Center -> Network & Internet -> Reconfigure ...
You'll find a tab called DHCP, in there you'll find an option "DHCP timout" enter a good value what so ever you feel is comfortable with your setup, me my self has a timeout of 10 sec's which is high enough in my point of view.

Thanks! I'll give that a try!!

I never found that GUI setting in Network & Internet ->Reconfigure (actually never saw anything called reconfigure - but even on the things I did try - nothing had a DHCP timeout option).
Editing the file though and just flat out adding:
DHCP_TIMEOUT=10 worked great!!! <DHCP_TIMEOUT= line did not exist - so I just added it - but it cerntainly seemed to do the trick!>

Thanks for your help!

~Anthony