[Voyage-linux] Booting Offline

[Robert Rawlins]

Hello Guys,

 

I'm looking for advice for when I'm booting the system without a network
connect. At the moment when starting the system without a network connection
we're looking at around 2 minutes before its up and ready for me to use.
This seems to be the networking attempting to find a DHCP server several
times which causes the long delay.

 

Setting up networking....

Configuring network interfaces...Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client
2.0pl5

Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium.

All rights reserved.

 

Please contribute if you find this software useful.

For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html

 

eth0: link down

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0d:b9:13:8f:a8

Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:0d:b9:13:8f:a8

Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net

DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67

DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67

DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7

DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19

DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19

DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7

DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9

No DHCPOFFERS received.

Trying recorded lease 192.168.1.70

PING 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 56(84) bytes of data.

 

--- 192.168.1.254 ping statistics ---

1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

 

No working leases in persistent database.

 

Exiting.

 

Failed to bring up eth0.

done.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can stop this from happening? I
want to remain on DHCP opposed to setting a static network address as the
systems are regularly connected to different networks running different IP
ranges, however, they are also started offline somewhat regularly and It
would be of a great benefit to make the boot as snappy as possible.

 

Thanks for any suggestions guys,

 

Robert

 

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