On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:44:39PM +0100, Stefan Rompf wrote:
> 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.
Yep, that seems to be the proper behaviour.
The only other thing missing is setting the DHCP lease time to
some reasonable value in the server so that when I go out of range it
goes back to searching, but that's clearly not a client issue...
So, it seems that your new client would address the need of
Ad-Hoc mode users. Pretty cool.
> Stefan
Thanks !
Jean
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