On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Steven W. Orr wrote:

> Tghis won't directly help you, but keep in mind that you shouldn't use
> pump. You should use dhcpcd instead. If you have your machine up 24/7 like
> I do then pump will simply abort after it fails to renew it's lease. I'm
> on RCN so I get renewed every 2 hours. Expiration happenes afetr about 5
> to 7 days. Using dhcpcd will start a new lease as needed.

SHOULDN'T use pump?   I disagree.

Pump is configurable:   /etc/pump.conf

You can put entries in there to tell it to increase the number of retries
and the timeouts.  Once I did this, pump works just fine, from several
different locations with several different DSL providers.

Example of /etc/pump.conf

device eth1 {
        retries 3
        timeout 90
}


There are more parameters available, too.  Check out man pump for full
set.  

As I said, pump.conf cleared up any problems I had with establishing and
keeping leases.

The advantage of pump is that it's part of the standard vanilla Red Hat
distro, which I've tried to maintain in my many installations.

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