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List:       dhcp-client
Subject:    Re: client auto renew
From:       "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins () isc ! org>
Date:       2004-03-12 18:17:10
Message-ID: 20040312181710.GA74018 () isc ! org
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 02:30:50PM -0600, Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Mar 11, 2004, at 2:17 PM, Anderson, Jordan T. wrote:
> > Is there any way to get the client to renew its lease when the machine 
> > starts to try and pass traffic again?  (like it does with the native 
> > Mac dhcp client).  Does the client 'listen' for an active network 
> > connection?  Or does it just wait until its lease is up before trying 
> > to get a new one?
> 
> It doesn't pay any attention at all to the status of the link.   It was 
> written for portability rather than perfection.   :'(   You can force a 
i believe the feature being requested here is implemented in the patches
freebsd applies to the dhclient that's installed with their releases.

i kept meaning to go find an url over at freebsd.org to hand out,
but don't seem to be finding the time.  google for it maybe.

i don't know how hard it would be to get it to work on os/x...

-- 
David W. Hankins		"If you don't do it right the first time,
Operations Engineer			you'll just have to do it again."
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.		-- Jack T. Hankins

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