Re: dhclient in 6.0

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 06:43:59AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-Feb-03 10:53:57 +0000, Phillip Neumann wrote:
> >Ill use this same topic to ask this.. :-)
> 
> It would be preferable to start a new thread to make it easier to
> follow both.
> 
> >bfe0: no link .............. giving up
> 
> >why is it trying to obtain a ip adress on a inteface wich has no link?
> >it should quit inmediatly...
> 
> Because the link may not come up immediately.  I've noticed that it
> can take a few seconds to detect a link on a wired interface and I
> suspect it can be longer on wireless.
> 
> If you feel up to patching the code, you could try making the
> timeout in sbin/dhclient/dhclient.c configurable, rather than fixed
> at 10 seconds.

I've got patches I need to commit that will eliminate the current manual
start of dhclient at boot and only start it via devd.  If all goes well
I should be able to make that the default in 7.0 and make it optional in
6.x.

-- Brooks

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