Am Freitag 17 Februar 2006 19:39 schrieb Jean Tourrilhes: > I congratulate you on your good work.
Thanks! > I will share with you my personal gripe on most DHCP clients : > they depend too much on those link signalling. I hope you appreciate > the irony ;-) Someone needs a feature, another one hates it ;-) > After 'ifup', the DHCP client tries a few time to connect to > the DHCP server, and if not in range, will give up and never > retry. When I bring my laptop within range of my DHCP server, nothing > happens. I have to manually restart the interface. ... but still, my client may be interesting for you because it doesn't give up. If it cannot get an IP address, the backoff between DHCP discovers goes up to the RFC 2131 mandated 64 seconds, but it will keep trying. Stefan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
