Re: select/poll bug?

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 07:27:34PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 13:36 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > Agreed.  (If memory serves, I've had problems with leases on laptops
> > because the timer didn't run while it was suspended.)
> 
> When a laptop comes out of suspension, it should inform the DHCP client
> to renew it's lease as it may be on a different subnet now.

The problem is that dhclient will assume the lease is still valid if it
hasn't expired. dhcpcd will renew the lease as the link state change
will make it do so.

Joerg