Re: [PATCH 2/3] Make udhcpc continuously retry getting a lease until dhcp_timeout.

[Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 09:32:02PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu>
> ---
>  packages/netcfg/dhcp.c |   10 ++++++++--
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c b/packages/netcfg/dhcp.c
> index f706c5c..385799b 100644

I've reviewed and tested this patch, and it looks good.  I tested it by
running a DHCP install with the DHCP server off, and then starting it when
the progress bar was at around 50%.  Without the patch applied, DHCP failed
and I was asked to manually configure the network.  With the patch applied,
udhcpc quickly found the DHCP server and we were away.  Dumping the traffic
with tcpdump also showed a lot more DHCP requests flying around.

I'd recommend this patch be applied before the Squeeze release, as there are
a number of bugs related to DHCP timeouts, as Ferenc mentions.  I'm not sure
that the other patches should be applied pre-Squeeze; the cleanups involved
are minor.

Otavio, any objection to me committing this patch to SVN?  (I'm assuming
that Ferenc doesn't have SVN commit access...)  I'm happy to do the upload,
too, if that's necessary.

- Matt