dhcpcd-discuss

Hi Roy,

Thanks for your answer!

On 5/5/19 3:45 PM, Roy Marples wrote:
> Now that will fire whenever dhcpcd gets as valid lease or a router
> advertisement.
> That might be far too frequent for your needs.

Yes, it is far too frequent.

> Antyhing *of relevance* that has changed could mean many things - for
> example has the hardware address of the default router changed? Are we
> running on wireless or wired?

Yes, this is very vague. Bottom line is that I would like to allow the
user (and even more important, the developers and testers) to easily
enforce an update attempt without having to restart the device or
waiting for the 12h polling interval to end.

> I think the easiest solution would be to pull for an update via a cron job.

This is already the case, happening every 12 hours and also during startup.


Kind regards,
Reto

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