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Shorten time when IP address is asked for

Open bnvk opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

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).

bnvk avatar Feb 17 '18 22:02 bnvk

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.

juga0 avatar Feb 18 '18 11:02 juga0