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Subject: Re: dhclient sucks
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>>>>> "Brooks" == Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes:

Brooks> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:09:55AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote:
>> The ISC dhclient would probe multiple interfaces simultaneously.
>> The new one waits for some amount o ftime on my hardwire ethernet
>> (rarely used) before probing my wireless.  The result is a longer
>> startup.

Brooks> Try:

Brooks> background_dhclient="YES"

That's an entirely different behaviour.  The stock behaviour of ISC is
the only sensible behaviour: Wait until either a timeout or you have
an address, then continue.  It makes the startup scripts happy, and it
doesn't waste time.

Dave.

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