On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Hans Dedecker <[email protected]> wrote:
> RFC2131 paragraph 3.1 states the client should retransmit the DHCP
> request message enough times to give adequate probability of contacting
> the server without causing the client to wait overly to long before
> giving up; as an example a total delay of 60 seconds is given.
> The udhcp client implementation allows to tweak the number of request
> messages via the -t option; however if -t option is set to 0 so the
> the client keeps sending discover messages it will get stuck in the
> requesting state after an offer if no DHCP ack or nack message is
> received.

How about the solution of "don't do that then"?
Help text doesn't even document that "-t 0" is a valid usage.
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