[TriLUG] DHCP timeout with 10g hardware on rhel family

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Jimmy Dorff wrote:

> But under plain old red hat networking, 
> "/etc/init.d/network" and "ifup", it generally times out 
> with the error "failed: no link present. Check cable?". I 
> say generally cause sometimes it does work.. it's pretty 
> much a race condition.

after associating, my wifi nic gets link errors ("waiting 
for carrier") with certain types of waps, when trying to get 
an IP. I use the -K option to ignore link errors

dhcpcd -K -d $nic -h $HOSTNAME t 60

Joe

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