Lawrence,
I have found that Linux in general, (at least Red Hat), is like that.
If the Linux DHCP client cannot get a lease, it gets upset, goes home
and sulks. (and to make matters worse, usually does not complain that it
could not get a -lease- but that it could not -initialize- the NIC!)
If I knew enough about this stuff in general, as well as Linux
programming in particular, I'd grab hold of the dhcpd source and make it
(a) spawn a thread so the rest of the system does not hang waiting for
it to happen, and (b) make the error messages more inteligent.
In the meantime, it could be worse. . . you could be on a multi-homed NT
Server system! ;-)
Jim
Lawrence K. Chen wrote:
> Here's a feature request....I guess.
>
> Is it possible to make the DHCP client keep trying if it doesn't get/or
> is
> unable to renew a lease?
>
> Last night I wasn't able to get on....and I found that the DHCP process
> had
> go away and I had no IP address. Eventually I rebooted and it just
> hangs
> counting the seconds since its been looking for a lease. But, the
> actual
> process has stopped running. Eventually, the DHCP server came back up,
> and
> everything is working again.
>
> An Aside: A gripe for RoadRunner....they take their phone off the hook
> when
> their service goes down....so nobody can call in to find out the status.
> I
> tore through my whole setup checking things only to finally find out
> this
> morning that their DHCP server had been down. Plus they didn't update
> their
> status page (I know because I looked at it from my wireless internet
> service).
>
>
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