upgrade to rawhide report

[Nils Philippsen]

On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 13:56, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 12:48, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The problem with that view (which indeed was certainly my view and I fixed
> > some drivers) is that from "up" it can take 60 seconds to get gigabit
> > negotiation completed. In addition it really mucks up power management
> > code in all the drivers.
> 
> I have a set of IBM servers with E1000 type ethernet NICs onboard which
> are incapable of DHCP because they take longer to negotiate onto the
> network than the DHCP timeouts.

IIRC this should set timeout to 120 seconds on eth0:

echo "timeout 120;" >> /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf

Nils
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