Mercurial > hg > dhcpcd
changeset 5521:4396ae1267a0 draft
dhcpcd.conf(5): mention fallback for the reboot option
Syncs with dhcpcd(8)
| author | Roy Marples <roy@marples.name> |
|---|---|
| date | Sun, 25 Oct 2020 08:50:44 +0000 |
| parents | 4cdb6a13f1b7 |
| children | 75fdbbc9e1a5 |
| files | src/dhcpcd.conf.5.in |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/src/dhcpcd.conf.5.in Fri Oct 16 14:36:34 2020 +0100 +++ b/src/dhcpcd.conf.5.in Sun Oct 25 08:50:44 2020 +0000 @@ -606,18 +606,24 @@ .It Ic reboot Ar seconds Allow .Ar reboot -seconds before moving to the DISCOVER phase if we have an old lease to use -and moving from DISCOVER to IPv4LL if no reply. +seconds before moving to the DISCOVER phase if we have an old lease to use. +Allow +.Ar reboot +seconds before starting fallback states from the DISCOVER phase. +IPv4LL is started when the first +.Ar reboot +timeout is reached. The default is 5 seconds. A setting of 0 seconds causes -.Nm dhcpcd -to skip the REBOOT phase and go straight into DISCOVER. +.Nm +to skip the reboot phase and go straight into DISCOVER. This is desirable for mobile users because if you change from network A to network B and they use the same subnet and the address from network A isn't in use on network B, then the DHCP server will remain silent even if authoritative which means .Nm dhcpcd will timeout before moving back to the DISCOVER phase. +This has no effect on DHCPv6 other than skipping the reboot phase. .It Ic release .Nm dhcpcd will release the lease prior to stopping the interface.