http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518219 User mt@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518219#c6 --- Comment #6 from Marius Tomaschewski <mt@novell.com> 2009-07-10 02:17:31 MDT --- Another possibility is that the timeouts: /etc/sysconfig/network/config WAIT_FOR_INTERFACES="30" /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp DHCLIENT_WAIT_AT_BOOT="15" are not sufficient for your setup. When the dhcp client needs too long to setup the interface, /etc/init.d/network will continue and report "in background". Common reason is a bridge with enabled STP. Please verify that all your bridges have this two settings in ifcfg-* files: BRIDGE_STP='off' BRIDGE_FORWARDDELAY='0' A bridge with enabled STP may need up to 50 secs before it enables the interface / starts to forward packets, see also: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BRIDGE-STP-HOWTO/advanced-bridge.html#STP you can tune STP e.g. using BRIDGE_FORWARDDELAY='4' BRIDGE_HELLOTIME='1' BRIDGE_MAXAGE='4' and increasing the timeouts to: WAIT_FOR_INTERFACES="60" DHCLIENT_WAIT_AT_BOOT="30" When the ISC dhclient is in use (not dhcpcd), if may need +15sec: # Note: RFC 2131 specifies, that the dhcp client should wait a random time # between one and ten seconds to desynchronize the use of DHCP at startup. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.