Yes that would be useful as for 3G devices the data path can take a few seconds to stabilise and get the DHCP packets through after a connect is established. I was looking at how to change the DHCP time-out for these and perhaps get it to make a couple of requests rather than the default of useing a default IP address.
-- Stuart Ward M +44 7782325143 On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Sjoerd Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 06:30:35PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 12:28 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > > > Add configuration options for apply a dhcp timeout and using DHCP using > > > anycast instead of broadcast. > > > > So; does the DHCP timeout change for the mesh devices at all in the new > > scheme? At what points might the DHCP timeout be something other than > > the max or the min? > > I'm not sure what you mean with max and min here. But the olpc connection > algorithm is afaik to basically try out the three ``standard'' mesh > frequencies > one by one using dhcp to see if there is a school server around. In this > case > the 45 second timeout is a bit long. Which is why the possibility to set a > smaller timeout is desirable. > > > I'd rather not have configurable DHCP timeouts in this manner because for > > non-mesh cases, the DHCP timeout never needs to change. If we can set > the > > DHCP timeout for mesh operations in the activation request like the old > code > > did, that would be preferable. > > I guess i could do that. But that would mean mixing device configuration > and ip > configuration for mesh devices, which doesn't seem the right way to me. I > don't > really see any harm in exposing this functionality for all devices > (although > maybe we should clamp it to a certain min and max value)? > > Sjoerd > -- > It's very inconvenient to be mortal -- you never know when everything may > suddenly stop happening. > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list >
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