I don't understand what you mean by hang? Does it hang the box? I would expect dhclient to reject the offer and try again. Does dhclient never try again?
I'll take a closer look tomorrow, but if it isn't now it should be easy to fix dhclient to try again for a different lease. .... Ken On 7 Dec 2015 10:57, "Martin Pieuchot" <[email protected]> wrote: > If for some reason SIOCAIFADDR fails, exit instead of hanging. > > Without this diff I need to kill dhclient(8) with ctrl+C during boot > if I happen to have the address offered by the server configured on > a different interface. > > WARNING: do not try to do that on -current without my rt_delete diffs > or your kernel with panic! > > Ok? > > Index: kroute.c > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/dhclient/kroute.c,v > retrieving revision 1.75 > diff -u -p -r1.75 kroute.c > --- kroute.c 10 Feb 2015 04:20:26 -0000 1.75 > +++ kroute.c 7 Dec 2015 15:51:17 -0000 > @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ priv_add_address(struct imsg_add_address > /* No need to set broadcast address. Kernel can figure it out. */ > > if (ioctl(s, SIOCAIFADDR, &ifaliasreq) == -1) > - warning("SIOCAIFADDR failed (%s): %s", > inet_ntoa(imsg->addr), > + error("SIOCAIFADDR failed (%s): %s", inet_ntoa(imsg->addr), > strerror(errno)); > > close(s); >
