On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Jonas Danielsson wrote: > About the -W seconds. I added it because of what was pointed out in the > RFC2131: > > 5. The client receives the DHCPACK message with configuration > parameters. The client SHOULD perform a final check on the > parameters (e.g., ARP for allocated network address), and notes the > duration of the lease specified in the DHCPACK message. At this > point, the client is configured. If the client detects that the > address is already in use (e.g., through the use of ARP), the > client MUST send a DHCPDECLINE message to the server and restarts > the configuration process. The client SHOULD wait a minimum of ten > seconds before restarting the configuration process to avoid > excessive network traffic in case of looping. > > It is the matter of the minimum of 10 seconds that made me include > it. But maybe it is better to reuse the --tryagain flag and set a > lower bound on it?
IMO, the two should not be mixed. Cheers, -- Cristian _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
