William Oakley wrote: > So it seems that the netcfg succeeds to obtain the dhcp address but does > not seem to realise it. netcfg leaves the dhcp client running while displaying the message, so it obtains the lease, probably after another second or something and before you run ifconfig. When you retry it notices that a lease was obtained. You could investigate why it takes your dhcp server more than 15 seconds to respond to a dhcp request; 10 seconds is close to the upper bound for most servers and networks, and 3 seconds is more usual. -- see shy jo
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