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

[Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>]

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.

> 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.

>                                                                        In a
> network with dynamic ARP inspection[1] this results in loosing the network
> connection during installation.

So you have a infrastructure, that breaks existing things.

Bastian

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