[PATCH] udhcp: infinite retries

Steven Scholz steven.scholz at imc-berlin.de
Tue Feb 6 13:44:47 UTC 2007


Samuel,

>>> It may be useful (at least it is for us) to keep on sending DHCP request 
>>> and renewals for ever until we actually get an answer. For that purpose 
>>> udhcpc -t 0 could do the job.
>> I guess udhcpc -t 999999999 will be the same in practice.
> 
> Almost, but not exactly.
> We have machines that can be powered up without being connected to any 
> network for weeks. However, we need them to fetch an IP if they ever get 
> plugged to some network.

Then maybe you want to use something like netplugd ot ifplugd ...

--
Steven





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