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Subject: Re: [ISC-Bugs #36169] DHCP 4.1-ESV-R9 - dhclient exits immediately
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On 10/05/2014 09:11 AM, John Newlin via RT wrote:
> Hmm interesting thanks.  It might be better if instead of
> exiting dhclient just waited for a link local address, or had
> an option to do that.  I can add that and submit a patch back
> to isc.  Otherwise I'll need to write a wrapper around
> dhclient to do the same thing.

Ah, that makes sense.  We like patches, of course.  We'd be most
likely to accept something with a command line option to do some
sort of wait after the attempt to open the link-local socket
fails.

Thanks again; we're looking forward to your patch.
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    Chuck Aurora : ISC Software Support : chucka@isc.org
    Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.