Mercurial > hg > dhcpcd
changeset 1910:6cd1814cd012 draft
Note that reboot 0 helps for mobile hosts.
| author | Roy Marples <roy@marples.name> |
|---|---|
| date | Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:40:31 +0000 |
| parents | 1f73726a4cdf |
| children | 6da0ae0e11b5 |
| files | dhcpcd.conf.5.in |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/dhcpcd.conf.5.in Fri Apr 05 14:55:50 2013 +0000 +++ b/dhcpcd.conf.5.in Fri Apr 05 16:40:31 2013 +0000 @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd April 1, 2013 +.Dd April 5, 2013 .Dt DHCPCD.CONF 5 SMM .Os .Sh NAME @@ -263,11 +263,17 @@ .It Ic reboot Ar seconds Allow .Ar reboot -seconds before moving to the discover phase if we have an old lease to use. +seconds before moving to the DISCOVER phase if we have an old lease to use. The default is 5 seconds. -A setting if 0 seconds causes +A setting of 0 seconds causes .Nm dhcpcd -to skip the reboot phase and go straight into discover. +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 authorative +which means +.Nm dhcpcd +will timeout before moving back to the DISCOVER phase. .It Ic release .Nm dhcpcd will release the lease prior to stopping the interface.