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Bug#596667: debian-installer does not renew DHCP leases



Hi,

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:54:42AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:21:40AM +0200, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> > Package: debian-installer
> 
> Which version? There where several different DHCP client implementations
> in use over time.

All those using the one-shot busybox udhcpc.

A workaround is to manually request a new IP whenever the lease has
expired.

> > The debian installer does not renew a DHCP lease after it has expired.
> 
> Possible. This means that the lease time is set to an insane low value.
> You could downgrade to request not-expiring bootp leases.

No.

> > network with dynamic ARP inspection[1] this results in loosing the network
> > connection during installation.
> 
> So you have a infrastructure, that breaks existing things.

No, d-i is broken by relying on the assumption that an IP address granted
for time t1 is valid for a time t2 > t1.
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