On Tuesday 30 July 2002 22.10, Nick Selby wrote:
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 17:17, Rick Green wrote:
In /etc/dhclient.conf, I changed
initial-interval 2;
to
initial-interval 5;
and DHCP negotiation has been successful on the first try every time since!
I can't find that file. I searched for dhclient.conf and dhcclient.conf starting at root. Where was it?
It is the config file for dhclient, an alternative to the dhcpcd that you're running. initial-interval is the amount of time between tries to contact a dhcp server. It's difficult to see how increasing it would fix any problems, but perhaps the server built into those routers is so slow, reducing the load on them helps. Someone mentioned that they got an address if they waited for more than 5 seconds, which in a home setup with 2 or 3 clients is just silly. I still say you should replace the broken dhcp server with one of the ones included in SuSE. I've used them at home and I've used them in office settings with both linux and windows clients. They work. //Anders