Improving dhclient startup time

David W. Hankins David_Hankins at isc.org
Thu Jun 15 23:24:43 UTC 2006


On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 05:17:20PM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> David W. Hankins wrote:
> > No, it's just going to disappear in the next feature release.
> 
> Wouldn't it make more sense for it to be an option?  (I don't care what the 
> default is.)

#!/bin/bash

sleep $[ $RANDOM % 5 ]
dhclient


Kidding mostly.  We'll consider making it optional behaviour when the
ticket bubbles up to the top for integration.

I don't see any reason for it to continue to be default-on.

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David W. Hankins		"If you don't do it right the first time,
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