dhcpcd-discuss

Hi Roy

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 4:12 PM Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is controlled by the reboot timeout which has a default of 5 seconds.
>

This seems to be exactly what I was looking for, thank you! I see fallback
specifically mentioned under the reboot option in the man page now
(although it doesn't seem to appear in the dhcpcd.conf man page). I had the
idea of a timeout stuck in my head and overlooked it.

If that's the case why bother with a static profile? dhcpcd will poll ad
> infinitum to get a DHCP lease by default.
>

The clients are relatively portable and get pulled on and off networks.
They can end up somewhere without a dhcp server or just need to be
reachable in an ad-hoc way, and the fallback is handy for that.

Thanks again.

Jesse