[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#592801: Bug#592801: isc-dhcp-client: unnecessary delay before first packet

[Andrew Pollock]

Hello,

This bug was reported by one of our users.

Please maintain the Cc in any replies so our bug tracking system is kept in
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:06:31PM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> Package: isc-dhcp-client
> Version: 4.1.1-P1-9
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> 
> dhclient delays the first packet for up to five seconds for no good reason. This is especially annoying on laptops because it increases the time from suspend/resume (with the WiFi turned off) until the system is fully usable again.
> 
> More information and a trivial patch [3] (also attached to this ticket) are available from the Fedora bugtracker (ticket #587070 [1]). Upstream has promised to remove the delay [2] several years ago but it's still there.
> 
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587070
> [2] https://lists.isc.org/mailman/htdig/dhcp-users/2006-June/000933.html
> [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=409949&action=diff&context=patch&collapsed=&headers=1&format=raw
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.6-xo1.5-2-00377-g7f5e423 (PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client depends on:
> ii  debianutils                   3.4        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
> ii  isc-dhcp-common               4.1.1-P1-9 common files used by all the isc-d
> ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
> ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8o-1   SSL shared libraries
> 
> isc-dhcp-client recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client suggests:
> ii  avahi-autoipd                 0.6.26-1   Avahi IPv4LL network address confi
> pn  resolvconf                    <none>     (no description available)
> 
> -- no debconf information


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