Re: Continuous DHCP?

2011-12-07 Thread Chris Paulson-Ellis
On 06/12/11 22:34, Dan Williams wrote: On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 17:21 +, Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote: On 05/12/11 14:54, Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote: On 05/12/11 12:34, Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote: Is there some way to configure NetworkManager to keep running dhclient and never give up? NetworkMan

Re: Continuous DHCP?

2011-12-06 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 17:21 +, Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote: > On 05/12/11 14:54, Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote: > > On 05/12/11 12:34, Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote: > >> Is there some way to configure NetworkManager to keep running dhclient > >> and never give up? > >> > >> NetworkManager-0.9.1.90-3.git

Re: Continuous DHCP?

2011-12-05 Thread Chris Paulson-Ellis
On 05/12/11 14:54, Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote: On 05/12/11 12:34, Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote: Is there some way to configure NetworkManager to keep running dhclient and never give up? NetworkManager-0.9.1.90-3.git20110927.fc15.x86_64 It seems commit fdfbe00aac3f17b19bb8d84cba1c8f210d90e8a0 is t

Re: Continuous DHCP?

2011-12-05 Thread Chris Paulson-Ellis
On 05/12/11 12:34, Chris Paulson-Ellis wrote: Is there some way to configure NetworkManager to keep running dhclient and never give up? NetworkManager-0.9.1.90-3.git20110927.fc15.x86_64 It seems commit fdfbe00aac3f17b19bb8d84cba1c8f210d90e8a0 is trying to address my issue, but I'm not seeing

Re: Continuous DHCP?

2011-12-05 Thread Chris Paulson-Ellis
On 05/12/11 13:10, Jiri Popelka wrote: timeout ; statement in /etc/dhcp/dhclient-.conf could help. The problem is with the behaviour of NetworkManager, not dhclient. From dhclient.conf man page: "The timeout statement determines the amount of time that must pass between the time that the c

Re: Continuous DHCP?

2011-12-05 Thread Jiri Popelka
timeout ; statement in /etc/dhcp/dhclient-.conf could help. From dhclient.conf man page: "The timeout statement determines the amount of time that must pass between the time that the client begins to try to determine its address and the time that it decides that it's not going to be able to

Continuous DHCP?

2011-12-05 Thread Chris Paulson-Ellis
Hi, I have a deployment scenario which requires NetworkManager to keep trying forever to obtain a IPv4 address on a wired network using DHCP. Currently, NetworkManager runs dhclient every 45s, which is fine, but it stops after a few minutes and never seems to try again. In my scenario, the (