dhcpcd-discuss

Re: run-hooks being spawned every time router advertisement is received (every 5 seconds)

Ivan Middleton

Wed Apr 18 20:38:04 2018

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 08:41:59PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> dhcpcd runs the hooks at every event, even if the prior one was identical.

I'm curious-- what's an example of a situation where this is necessary?

> A better question to ask is why is your router sending an advertisement
> every 5 seconds?

According to the spec, an interval as small as 3 seconds is acceptable:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4861#page-41

Ivan

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