Improving dhclient startup time
Ted Lemon
mellon at fugue.com
Thu Jun 15 16:13:08 UTC 2006
The reason for the wait on startup is that in a situation where you have
hundreds of machines rebooting after a power failure, you'd like them to
stagger their boot times. At least, that's the theory. In practice,
nearly any DHCP server you're likely to have installed is capable of
dealing with a dogpile after a power outage, so this precaution isn't
really necessary. Plus, Windows machines don't wait anyway, nor, I
think, do Mac OS X machines, so by trying to be a good network citizen
the Linux and BSD machines running the ISC client are just losing out.
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