On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 10:29:21AM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > I am using CentOS 7 (systemd 219) on a Banana Pi as my residential > firewall/gateway. The Banana Pi does not have a persistent clock, so > it has no idea what the time is until it is able to sync via NTP. Thus, > the initial DHCP leases that the BPi receives have incorrect expiration/ > renewal times (since the system can't sync via NTP before it has an IP > address - chicken and egg).
Can't you just store the time on shutdown and restore it at boot (e.g., take the time of the journal file) - that is usually close enough, at least it works well enough for use cases in openwrt and lede. -- Debian Developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev | Ubuntu Core Developer | When replying, only quote what is necessary, and write each reply directly below the part(s) it pertains to ('inline'). Thank you. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel