Hello, On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 03:22:31 +0100, h wrote: >> DHCP requests are issued only every 10 seconds which is rather slow. > > ... but no option for this. The relevant RFC i951 calls for an increasing timeout: 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64 seconds, with a slight random variation for every retry (netboot is implementing it this way). > BTW can somebody tell me how to combine a graphical splash picture with an > arbitrary NBI? I would rather not bother average users with sh*tloads of > kernel messages. console=null, OK but a splash would be nicer. Interesting thought. It should be pretty easy to implement into mknbi-linux. I will keep this in mind for one of the next netboot releases. gero. -- Gero Kuhlmann Tollenbrink 18 Groote Gracht 33 gero@gkminix.han.de 30659 Hannover 26723 Emden gero.kuhlmann@arcor.de 04921/997561 =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Gero Kuhlmann <gero@gkminix.han.de> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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