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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello Guys,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Setting up networking....<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Configuring network interfaces...Internet Software
Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software
Consortium.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>All rights reserved.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Please contribute if you find this software useful.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>For info, please visit <a
href="http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html">http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>eth0: link down<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0d:b9:13:8f:a8<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0d:b9:13:8f:a8<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>No DHCPOFFERS received.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Trying recorded lease 192.168.1.70<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>PING 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 56(84) bytes of data.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>--- 192.168.1.254 ping statistics ---<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet
loss, time 0ms<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>No working leases in persistent database.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Exiting.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Failed to bring up eth0.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>done.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for any suggestions guys,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Robert<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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