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Shorten time when IP address is asked for
Currently as per the spec, there is a variable 10 - 60 second delay before dhcpcanon
asks for an IP address from the router. This is a relatively poor users experience given what people are used to (a few seconds usually).
Thanks for pointing this.
I remember now that i added an option to set the initial delay and remove it by default in https://github.com/juga0/dhcpcanon/commit/831bf413678d79bbe9e6a54f3092f90d9193b5c3.
So it's possible that the delay comes from the router, specially in a network with many users.
You could run it with the verbose option dhcpcanon -v
to see whether it stays waiting after it sends the DISCOVER
. You can also pass v
option to the systemd service.