DHCP Request in the background

Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 07:01:02 PST 2009


On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:43:24 +0100, "Fernando Apesteguía" <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I would like to know if there is a way (something in rc.conf?) to tell
>> dhcp to run in the background, so while the crappy router is answering
>> my request, hal, dbus and the whole thing can be loaded whitout delay.
>
> According to /etc/defaults/rc.conf, there is the following setting:
>
>        background_dhclient="NO"        # Start dhcp client in the background.
>
> So if you put
>
>        background_dhclient="YES"
>
> into your /etc/rc.conf, it should work as expected.

My bad, I should have looked at that file.

It works fine,

Thanks!
>
>
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