On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:33:04PM +0000, Simon Kelley wrote: > >>BTW: sarge starts dhclient with the -e option. Therefore the client will > >> give up to get a lease and _exit_ when the server can not be reached > >> at boot time. Thus it will never retry to get a lease when the server > >> is available again. I bet this is _not_ the way the client should > >> behave? > > > >i think dhcpcd is this way too. but if the internet goes down after it > >got an ip it will wait till ti comes back up. not sure if the eth can be > >started and set to wait... > > Setting the timeout to zero (dhcpcd -t 0) will cause it to wait forever, > at least on the Debian version and 2.0.x releases.
Well, remove the -e option from dhclient invocation is not very hard, too. But the disappointing part is that this is not the _default_ behavior. Manual intervention on every client is needed to make it function properly :-((
