How does udhcpc determine dhcp timeout?

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Monday 24 November 2008 19:32, Donovan Jay-MGIA2023 wrote:
> Greetings,
>  
> I need to understand the timeout algorithm for udhcpc when no dhcp
> server is available. Is there a description somewhere in the archives?
> Is there a searchable archive somewhere for future questions? 

Can this pass as a documentation?

# ./busybox udhcpc --help
BusyBox v1.14.0.svn (2008-11-22 20:01:39 CET) multi-call binary

Usage: udhcpc [-Cfbnqtvo] [-c CID] [-V VCLS] [-H HOSTNAME] [-i INTERFACE]
        [-p pidfile] [-r IP] [-s script] [-O dhcp-option]...

...
        -t,--retries=N          Send up to N request packets
        -T,--timeout=N          Try to get a lease for N seconds (default 3)
        -A,--tryagain=N         Wait N seconds (default 20) after failure
...

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Wow, your company's lawyers are... creative.
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