udhcp discovery takes minutes

Lombard, David N dnlombar at ichips.intel.com
Tue Jan 15 14:44:03 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:49:11PM +0100, Bruno Cornec wrote:
> Danny Sung said on Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:40:58PM -0800:
> 
> > I'm using udhcpc as packaged in busybox 1.9.0.  For some reason initial 
> > discovery can sometimes take several minutes (though once in a while 
> > it'll complete in seconds).  I had previously been using busybox 1.6.1, 
> > which didn't have any of these problems.
> > 
> [...]
> > Anyone else encounter issues like this?
> 
> I have a similar issue running busybox 1.7.3 on itanium. As you said the
> discovery is long, and once the IP address is received, everything works
> fine after (doing NFS restore without issue)

I'm running 1.8.2 on i386, and don't see this; 1.0.1, 1.1.1, and 1.8.1 were also
fine.

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David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA
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