Re: How to force ifup to wait for dhcp?
On Monday 21 July 2008 10:43, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Mon July 21 2008 00:36:28 Shachar Or wrote:
> > It would be more intelligent behaviour for the ifup script to wait with
> > dhcp for AP association. If it does not do this, as you say, please
> > report a bug against the ifupdown package.
> >
> > Perhaps the file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf can help you. In particular,
> > the 'retry' statement. Check the dhclient.conf(5) manual for that.
>
> DHCP does retry. It's not optimal but it kinda works. Sometime after
> AP authentication we eventually get DHCP from one of the retries.
I am suggesting that you set the retry to a lower value so that it will retry
every minute or so, for example.
>
> The problem is that I've not found a way to make startup wait for DHCP
> before plowing ahead and making a mess of openvpn, which then messes up
> the routing in quagga.
Once dhcp fails/times-out the openvpn setup gets busted?
If this s true, then perhaps look at 'timeout' statement.
If non of this works, perhaps you can use a static address instead of dhcp?
>
> --Mike Bird
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