Very slow bringing eth0 up on dhcp

[growse]

I run a dhcp server (gentoo box running dnsmasq) and a gentoo desktop. Every time I bring eth0 up on the desktop to get an ip from the server, it sits there doing nothing for about 20 seconds (uses dhcpcd as a client). Windows boxes on the network get their ip in under a second, so what's wrong with dhcpcd?
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Getting there....

[fatalglitch]

have you checked the logs?

run tail -f /var/log/messages in one terminal
then activate dhcpcd -d eth0, or pump -i eth0, whichever u use
and watch for errors?

-Tom

[UberLord]

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=256613