On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 21:21:43 -0400 (EDT), Hakan wrote:

Thank you, Stan, I'll try this when I visit this office again in a
month or so.  I was not familiar with this file.  Is there perhaps
another file where the default timeout -- 60 seconds -- can be changed?

Check file:
\MPTN\BIN\setup.cmd
There is a command:
dhcpstrt -i lan0 -d 10

The value after the '-d' is the timeout value.  I have my timeout
set to 10 seconds.  I've seen other recommendations for using zero,
but ten has worked well for me.