* Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-11 02:43]: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 12:45:04PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > > two seconds is too close. due to the weird dhclient architecture > > (dhclient-script has to die for interface IP configuration!) we have to > > work with time windows. it is 5 seconds afair. > > I notice this issue is not limited to starting multiple dhclients within > N seconds of each other, but also starting dhclient within N seconds of > other's renew time. > > Is there a better way of reliably restarting dhclient on a single > interface than ``pkill -f "dhclient: $IF" && dhclient $IF''?
if dhclient called ifconfig directly to configure interfaces instead of going through dhclient-script we would not need the time window... that's the way to go. -- BS Web Services, http://www.bsws.de/ OpenBSD-based Webhosting, Mail Services, Managed Servers, ... Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
