On 2008-05-19, Cesare Gargano <cesare.gargano@plusiagamma.com> wrote:
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> On 19/05/08 15:50 +0200, Cesare Gargano wrote:
>> On 18/05/08 17:20 +0200, Jona Joachim wrote:
>> > I very much appreciate the work of reyk@ on dhclient to make it renew the lease when the
>> > link is lost. However it might happen that you don't have a link at the moment where
>> > you launch dhclient but you know that you might get a link afterwards.
>> > This is true when you launch your laptop somewhere where you have wifi connectivity
>> > but unfortunately you're in a spot where you don't currently receive it.
>> > If you specify 'dhcp' in hostname.<if> you will have to wait until dhclient times out
>> > or hit Ctrl-C at startup.
>> > This tiny patch adds an option to dhclient to tell it to just go into background and wait
>> > until you get a link.
>> > 
>> > I would appreciate any comments.
>> > Thanks!
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Index: dhclient.c
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>> 
>> Ehi! Your diff is already there!
>> 
>> cat /etc/dhclient.conf
>> link_timeout 0;
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> is link-timeout
>
> Ehm! Enjoy!

You're right, I guess I was making things overly complicated.