dhcpcd-discuss

Re: [PATCH] timeout for all modes

Roy Marples

Fri Apr 30 05:42:22 2010

On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 14:21 +0200, Gerd v. Egidy wrote:
> One use (among others) of dhcpcd is to check that there is no other, unwanted 
> dhcp daemon listening on the network. To do this, I run dhcpcd in the test 
> mode without finally accepting an offered lease.
> 
> Without the attached patch, the test mode does not have a working timeout 
> which makes my usecase impossible. The patch enables the timeout for all 
> modes.
> 
> Please consider applying.

I rejected this as it would break other logic.
However, I have allowed test mode to apply the timeout, which should fix
it for you.

Thanks

Roy


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