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

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Tim Wunder (Lists) <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
> 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.

system-config-network is deprecated.  I'm not surprised that it failed
to do anything useful.  Just have /etc/init.d/network start before
dhcp, and make sure that the interface config file is set ONBOOT=yes



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