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Bug#246220: dhcp failing first time common on sparc hardware



On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:22:36AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Thomas Poindessous wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 06:59:02PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote:
> > > On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:57:02 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> > > 
> > > >>> 4. DHCP only worked on second try.
> > > >
> > > > Actually, DHCP wored, as 'ifconfig' on VC2 shows. So I assume the
> > > > reported error is due to low mem.
> > > 
> > > Nope, this happens on my Ultra 2 and sparcstation LX as well.
> > > Possibly a timing sensitive bug in the hme and le drivers.
> > 
> > I also have this one with my ultra5.
> 
> I think that I have the same problem in vmware using the 2.6 kernel on
> i386. It counts down 10 seconds, tells me dhcp failed, if I retry, it
> immediatly succeeds.

While netcfg presents the retry question the dhcp client is still
running in the background. If it gets a lease in the meantime, the
retry will exit immediatly and succeed. So this is the expected
behaviour. 

If we kill the client after 10s we risk that we will never get a lease
if the server needs more than 10s to respond. 

gaudenz



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