I think trying again for a different lease is the right thing.. I'm
really tired of dhclient exiting for stupid reasons ;)
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Kenneth Westerback
<kwesterb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't understand what you mean by hang? Does it hang the box? I would
> expect dhclient to reject the offer and try again. Does dhclient never try
> again?
>
> I'll take a closer look tomorrow, but if it isn't now it should be easy to
> fix dhclient to try again for a different lease.
>
> .... Ken
> On 7 Dec 2015 10:57, "Martin Pieuchot" <m...@openbsd.org> wrote:
>
>> If for some reason SIOCAIFADDR fails, exit instead of hanging.
>>
>> Without this diff I need to kill dhclient(8) with ctrl+C during boot
>> if I happen to have the address offered by the server configured on
>> a different interface.
>>
>> WARNING: do not try to do that on -current without my rt_delete diffs
>> or your kernel with panic!
>>
>> Ok?
>>
>> Index: kroute.c
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/dhclient/kroute.c,v
>> retrieving revision 1.75
>> diff -u -p -r1.75 kroute.c
>> --- kroute.c 10 Feb 2015 04:20:26 -0000 1.75
>> +++ kroute.c 7 Dec 2015 15:51:17 -0000
>> @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ priv_add_address(struct imsg_add_address
>> /* No need to set broadcast address. Kernel can figure it out. */
>>
>> if (ioctl(s, SIOCAIFADDR, &ifaliasreq) == -1)
>> - warning("SIOCAIFADDR failed (%s): %s",
>> inet_ntoa(imsg->addr),
>> + error("SIOCAIFADDR failed (%s): %s", inet_ntoa(imsg->addr),
>> strerror(errno));
>>
>> close(s);
>>
