Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:23:19 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: Phillip Neumann <pneumann@gmail.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhclient in 6.0 Message-ID: <20060204012319.GC24962@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060203194359.GB1030@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <52993.24.90.33.115.1138913403.squirrel@mail.el.net> <59391.24.90.33.115.1138965018.squirrel@mail.el.net> <1138964037.839.8.camel@localhost> <20060203194359.GB1030@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD5AIGXY6L6fI4GtQRAiQeAKDgjcFDM5aTJz7Nakw9sWOz6ZM5GACdGtVq lWn3RfEGEPd69qW6VZso6xc= =lz3C -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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