DHCP server won't start at boot; starts fine afterwards

[Tim Wunder (Lists)]

On 12/24/2009 05:36 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Jay Nugent <jjn at nuge.com> wrote:
<snip>

>>
>>   My guess would be that it is being started too early before the
>> interfaces are up.   Assuming you are booting into runlevel 5 (you said
>> Fedora-11 and assuming with X1 running), then edit the /etc/rc5.d/S##dhcp
>> line and bump the ## number up higher so it activates this service later
>> in the startup process.
> 
> And to elaborate, if you're using the abomination known as
> NetworkManager, then the network interface(s) do not come up until
> someone logs in.  Its a 'feature'.
> 

Unchecking the
[ ] Controlled by NetworkManager
option in system-config-network just results in the interfaces not
starting at reboot, despite checking the
[ ] Activate device when computer starts
option.


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