On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 04:04:34PM +0100, Dylan wrote:
On Monday 23 June 2003 15:39, poeml@cmdline.net wrote:
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:24:28AM +0100, Dylan wrote:
So, can anyone suggest what might be causing this behaviour? The router provides infinite leases (at least, theoretically) so I'd like to be able to
The infinity of the leases is causing this. The DHCP client immediately realizes that there is nothing to do (because the lease never ends) and quits, which is interpreted by the init script as failure.
OK, that makes sense.
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Would that be why the _net_dev option for nfs is causing problems on the offending machines?
Hhm, I'm not sure what you mean with _net_dev option here...
I suggest to change the lease duration to one week, or so, to work around the current limitation.
Unfortunately I don't have that control over the router (not a configurable
Okay.
option) so I'll put up with it. OTOH, is there a command I can add to the stop part of the rcnetwork script to explicitly release the lease?
Yes, you can set DHCLIENT_RELEASE_BEFORE_QUIT in /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp, but do you think that would make a difference? Peter