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On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:32:43 +0100, Daniel Drake <dsd@g.o> wrote: |
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> If I remember right, this was done for a short period of time. It caused |
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> problems. For example, I had "ntpdate" in my runlevel at the time, and it |
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> tried to start up directly after net.eth0. But net.eth0 hadn't completed the |
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> DHCP request in time, so my network interface was not ready to synchronise |
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> with a time server. |
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We could solve this by wating one or 2 secs and then backgrounding the |
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dhcp request. |
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Not sure how feasible this is, though. |
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But I think its intolerable for the average dhcp laptop user to wait |
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60 secs if he does not get a dhcp answer. |
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