dhclient speed FBSD vs DFBSD

Martin P. Hellwig mhellwig at xs4all.nl
Thu Feb 17 12:10:23 PST 2005


Matthew Dillon wrote:

> <cut>
>I think this may simply be an issue with the interface taking some time
>to come all the way up after being ifconfig'd.  dhclient is often run
>before the interface is fully up which causes its first packet or two
> to fail to be sent.  It works on the retry, but the result is a delay.
>
>I may have added a short sleep in DragonFly's rc.d script somewhere
>before dhclient is run, and this may be the only reason why it seems
>to work better for you.
>
>
I run dhclient manually after each boot and not via the rc.conf ,this is 
because I work at 4 different networks each with other wepkeys.

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