requests if the interface has an active link. This is a
great benefit if you often change networks with your laptop
and you do not like to kill/restart dhclient all the time.
Changes are automatically detected and the link is refreshed.
The change allows us to start dhclient in background mode
Enable dhclient to poll the interface state and send only
requests if the interface has an active link. This is a
great benefit if you often change networks with your laptop
and you do not like to kill/restart dhclient all the time.
Changes are automatically detected and the link is refreshed.
The change allows us to start dhclient in background mode
while the network cable is not plugged in.
To control the polling interval, the option -i has been
introduced. It takes seconds as parameter, the minimum is
one second, the default is five seconds.
Polling is done in seconds, not microseconds, because dhclient
does internally work with timeouts in seconds.
This change will be part of the next major ISC-dhcpd release.
Tested by: bms, imp, and many many others.
Reviewed by: murray, eivind, dhclient folks
beta ISC DHCP version 3 offering.
In message http://www.isc.org/ml-archives/dhcp-client/2000/10/msg00001.html
author Ted Lemon stated "This will not be fixed in any 2.0 release - 2.0
is no longer being maintained." to a reported problem about an
interoperability problem against Microsoft servers. FreeBSD went with the
ISC client vs. the WIDE client because others convinced me it was better
supported. Sigh. I wonder if version 3 will get the same treatment after
its release...
Since FreeBSD generally uses only released contrib products and the ISC
version 3 offering is still in beta, our backs are up against the wall.
The common/options.c rev 1.65 work around for erroneous Microsoft DHCP
servers has been back ported to the version 2.0pl5 client. Since this
comes from a change in the vendor's own code (and would no doubt also be
committed to the version 2 client if the author were still supporting it),
we will consider this a vendor release and import this as such.
PR: 21658
Submitted by: Motomichi Matsuzaki <mzaki@e-mail.ne.jp>
with options.c which was fixed in ISC's version 2.0 (rev 1.1.1.2 --> 1.1.1.3).
I have tested host-name with both types `X' and `t' and things work fine
either way. I would prefer to match the offical sources when easily possible.
PR: 12205
Submitted by: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>
