dhcpcd-discuss

On 26/03/2010 01:13, Russell A. Bell wrote:
> 	A friend left me her computer to fix.  It ran Windoze (Vista).
> I know little about Windoze; others ask me to fix their computers
> because they're lazy.
> 	When I repaired all its unhappinesses it found a wireless
> network, a local hotel.  I got a pretty good connection.
> 	When I tried to connect my own computer dhcpcd found the
> router, sometimes connected, but almost always dropped the connection
> in a few seconds or minutes.
> 	I fished out an old Win98 CD I keep on hand, re-partitioned my
> hard drive, and installed Win98 on the new partition.  It connected,
> using the same network card.
> 	Since then I 'fixed' (har!) another acquaintance's computer
> that has Windoze ME (!) and bought a new computer (my old laptop's
> screen failed) that has Windoze 7 (64-bit Home Premium): both
> connected but the new computer has the same behavior in Linux.
> 	I built the latest kernel and dhcpcd: no difference.  I even
> use the B switch to keep it in foreground - as if that made any
> difference.
> 	What does Windoze do that makes it connect better?  Is there
> something about the routers that makes them discriminate agains Linux?

dhcpcd obeys the kernel link events - namely carrier up/down.
When the link is UP, dhcpcd will negotiate a lease and keep it until it 
expires and fails re-negotiation OR the link goes down in which case it 
will remove any active lease for that interface.

If you think your network driver is faulty in this regard (ie, too 
trigger happy) then you can disable link detection by adding the word 
nolink on a line by itself in /etc/dhcpcd.conf

This is described in dhcpcd.conf(5)

Thanks

Roy