[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#675372: Bug#675372: isc-dhcp-client: dhclient wastes one minute at boot time on an unplugged link

[Andrew Shadura]

Hello,

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:30:12 -0700
Andrew Pollock <apollock at debian.org> wrote:

> I may have spoken too soon. There's no noticeable time difference
> between a run of dhclient with or without the -1 option (although I'd
> have thought we'd want dhclient to hang around in the background in
> case a cable was subsequently plugged in, so I still don't think that
> adding -1 to how ifup invokes dhclient is a particularly desirable
> thing)

Well, I don't really know what is worse: to have ifupdown to think it's
okay and mark our interface as being up, but not having it really
configured (so we have some inconsistency), or to require a user to run
ifplugd or something to bring it back up when the link is available
again or to run ifup again by hand. Probably I will just implement some
kind of callbacks in the next version of ifupdown so we can make it
really working.

-- 
WBR, Andrew
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