[systemd-devel] networkd - DHCP timeout ?

[Tom Gundersen]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Branko <brankob at s5tehnika.net> wrote:
> Unless I have overlooked something, there seems to be no way to tell dhcp
> client to fail and leave card unset after some timeout.
>
> We had power interruption, which left dhcp server unconcious and after
> rebooting my workstation I couldn't get it up, since it was waiting for dhcp
> client to get its response.
>
> One can set a timeout on unit, but i can't find anything similar for
> network.

You can't set a timeout for the dhcp client itself (we will keep
trying forever), but you can set a timeout (in current git) on the
wait-online service, so that the length of time your boot is blocked
is limited. Currently it is set to 120s (in git), but it can be
overridden manually.

HTH,

Tom