On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:02 PM, damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi again, > > Thank you all for your responses. After I sent my first email I > modified the rc config to boot in parallel. The boot process was > faster after that: just for the record, it takes 20 secs in a core 2 > duo laptop to drop the login prompt without X, wireless supplicant, > cron daemon or sound. > > I will also take a look at ifplug/netplug. Thanks for the tip. > >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=3#doc_chap3 > Sorry but I already looked into that page, but I couldn't find the > information I'm looking for. Could you be more explicit?
You wanted to pass options to your dhcp client. The page mentioned shows two ways of doing that: 1) By setting the variable dhcp_eth0 to a space-delimited string of options, like dhcp_eth0="release nodns nontp nonis" These generic options work for any of the dhclient, dhcpcd, pump and udhcpc clients. 2) By setting ${CLIENTNAME}_eth0 to a space-delimited string of options, you can pass any option to your specific client If you want to pass the -nw option to the dhclient client for the eth0 interface, you would write dhclient_eth0="-nw" All this configuration goes in /etc/conf.d/net (at least for baselayout 1.12.12; I don't know about baslayout 2.0.0)