to renew a lease, contact the dhcp-server directly instead of using
INADDR_BROADCAST all the time. This should fix some brain-dead dhcp
server implementations which give you all the time a new IP if the
lease has not yet expired.
Instead of using ICMP to check if the server is alive, we just check
the return value of sendto() and additionally have a timeout there.
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
I still have reservations about choosing the ISC client over the WIDE client,
but I believe the FreeBSD community in general seems to prefer this choice.
Also OpenBSD uses this version and msmith showed that the ISC client gives
us more choices in how we hook the client into sysinstall and /etc/rc*
