OK, confirmed from inspecting the code that this delay is not present.
Sorry for the false alarm, I'll mark this Invalid.
** Changed in: dhcp3 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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dhclient waits a random 0-4 seconds before trying to acquire a lease
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578773
Yo
Looks like I jumped the gun on this...
This originally came from a relatively new Red Hat bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587070
So, I have mud on may face... the version of dhcp3_client in Lucid is:
3.1.3-2ubuntu3. The version in the Red Hat bug isn't specified, but it
appear