On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:17:27 +0930
Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 09:44:01PM -0500, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> > 
> > hmm... has dhclient always done that?  If so, I wonder how it ever
> > worked for me.  (I'd try it again, but I no longer have the same
> > setup)
> > 
> 
> I honestly don't know - when I watched with wpa_cli during the dhcp
> process I could see the connection get torn down and restarted.
> 
> I am trying to trawl through the dhclient code to see if I can add a
> timeout after the socket is opened on the network interface.
> 
The place to add the 'sleep' is in dhclient-script, which is what's
doing the ifconfig.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb