dhclient existing when run early in startup

[Doug Barton]

Tobias Roth wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:28:18PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
> 
>>> Possible improvements:
>>> 1) change dhclient to accept a timeout on the commandline
>> This would be a useful addon.  Actually, I'd like to see both the option
>> to specify a shorter one and the option to keep trying forever since
>> that's what's wanted in some scenerios.
> 
> I've implemented the two switches -i and -t, that override the variables
> from dhclient.conf 'retry' and 'timeout'. The patch can be found here:
> 
> http://fsck.ch/dhclient_timeouts.diff

While you're at it, how about making the number of tries a runtime option as
well? I'm speaking specifically about the number of times dhclient tries an
interface before giving up with 'no link'. I have locally patched my system
to reduce that number from 10 to 5 since on my laptop bge0 is always tried
first, and rarely is it actually connected.

Doug

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