On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:45:04PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > two seconds is too close. due to the weird dhclient architecture > (dhclient-script has to die for interface IP configuration!) we have to > work with time windows. it is 5 seconds afair.
I notice this issue is not limited to starting multiple dhclients within N seconds of each other, but also starting dhclient within N seconds of other's renew time. Is there a better way of reliably restarting dhclient on a single interface than ``pkill -f "dhclient: $IF" && dhclient $IF''?