PSARC 2009/285 DHCP Client Updates

James Carlson james.d.carlson at sun.com
Wed May 6 14:17:18 PDT 2009


Garrett D'Amore writes:
> Seems like good stuff to me, especially the fixes for SIGTHAW.
> 
> +1.
> 
> Probably somewhere there should be some documentation explaining how 
> dhcpagent works in the face of suspend/resume (i.e. SIGTHAW) -- the 
> implicit "lease expiration" upon resume may catch a few people 
> unawares.  (Probably fewer than the old behavior did, but still it 
> should be noted somewhere... I'm just not sure where.)

I can certainly add it to the man page (along with the identical
link-up behavior) as part of the new VERIFIED_LEASE_ONLY option.

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