Network Daemon Slow

kensai · 2007-08-05 14:49:44

Ok, I did a fresh install of Arch Linux yesterday, since I erased the WIndows HDD 120GB to use it for linux also as storage, being completly windows free here . But whenerver the boot gets to the point of starting network it keeps starting it for like 1 minute, and with previous installs (numerous of them) if it took 3 seconds it was much. Now I'm using eth0 with an integrated Lan forcedeth driver, everything is detected correctly and modules are loaded correctly. /etc/rc.conf is as follows:

lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(lo eth0)

This is so strange any more input I can give? Thanks in advance for any help you might give.

Stalwart · 2007-08-05 20:20:50

Maybe DHCP server is slow? Can't you use static IP?

kensai · 2007-08-05 20:35:16

nope I can't use static, well it just happens in Arch Linux and after the new dhcpcd upgrade I think because before in my last installation it was running well.

starseed · 2007-08-06 01:00:00

Try and stop the network /etc/rc.d/network stop , and do a dhcpcd eth0 from cli .. does it take a long time ?

kensai · 2007-08-06 22:58:51

Well I wipped the install as it was getting very annoyed but I'm just downloading Arch 2007.8 to install from that iso since the changelog says something about fixing the dhcp entry in rc.conf. Let's hope it works

kensai · 2007-08-07 00:33:57

Indeed, it was the installation media I was doing ftp install with duke ftp iso and it was the worst time to do ftp install since everything was changing to don't panic, anyways I installed from don't panic and everything is fine now. Windows free again.

alexmatos · 2007-08-07 17:45:56

I'm having this same problem. I did a fresh install yesterday and after it upgraded to Don't Panic, the boot gets stucked for like 3 to 5 minutes in the Network part. Any ideas?

alexmatos · 2007-08-09 01:00:00

alexmatos wrote:

I'm having this same problem. I did a fresh install yesterday and after it upgraded to Don't Panic, the boot gets stucked for like 3 to 5 minutes in the Network part. Any ideas?

I still have this problem. Sometimes it's taking over 10 minutes to boot and that's very annoying. Does anybody know if fresh installing from the 2007.08 .iso will solve my problem? I didn't want to do that, so is there an alternative?

EDITED:

I stopped the network with (as root) '/etc/rc.d/network stop' and did 'time dhcpcd eth0'. It took 27 minutes! I'll try to downgrade the dhcpcd package and see if I have any luck.

Last edited by alexmatos (2007-08-09 01:39:28)

kensai · 2007-08-11 01:49:40

Is a problem with dhcpcd new version and cable modems mostly.

alexmatos · 2007-08-11 03:33:36

kensai wrote:

Is a problem with dhcpcd new version and cable modems mostly.

Yes. I downgraded it to 3.0.17 and it's working again.

kensai · 2007-08-11 09:50:02

A better option I've heard is to disable ARP check in /etc/conf.d/dhcpcd
here: DHCPCD_ARGS="-t 30 -h $HOSTNAME" adding an -A like this DHCPCD_ARGS="-A -t 30 -h $HOSTNAME"

alexmatos · 2007-08-11 12:41:41

kensai wrote:

A better option I've heard is to disable ARP check in /etc/conf.d/dhcpcd
here: DHCPCD_ARGS="-t 30 -h $HOSTNAME" adding an -A like this DHCPCD_ARGS="-A -t 30 -h $HOSTNAME"

So do you think I should upgrade and change this? I'll try that and come here for results. If it doesn't work, I'll only have to roll back to 3.0.17.

EDITED:
I did it and it worked like a charm. Thanks man! No more waiting for me!

Last edited by alexmatos (2007-08-11 13:00:20)

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Network Daemon Slow

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