| CC: | Sascha Silbe <sascha-debian-bugs-isc-dhcp-client-2010-08-12@silbe.org>, 592801-forwarded@bugs.debian.org, 592801@bugs.debian.org |
| Subject: | Re: [pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#592801: isc-dhcp-client: unnecessary delay before first packet |
| Date: | Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:02:14 +1000 |
| To: | dhcp-bugs@isc.org |
| From: | Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org> |
Hello,
This bug was reported by one of our users.
Please maintain the Cc in any replies so our bug tracking system is kept in
the loop.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:06:31PM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> Package: isc-dhcp-client
> Version: 4.1.1-P1-9
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
>
>
> dhclient delays the first packet for up to five seconds for no good reason. This is especially annoying on laptops because it increases the time from suspend/resume (with the WiFi turned off) until the system is fully usable again.
>
> More information and a trivial patch [3] (also attached to this ticket) are available from the Fedora bugtracker (ticket #587070 [1]). Upstream has promised to remove the delay [2] several years ago but it's still there.
>
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587070
> [2] https://lists.isc.org/mailman/htdig/dhcp-users/2006-June/000933.html
> [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=409949&action=diff&context=patch&collapsed=&headers=1&format=raw
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.6-xo1.5-2-00377-g7f5e423 (PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client depends on:
> ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
> ii isc-dhcp-common 4.1.1-P1-9 common files used by all the isc-d
> ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
> ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-1 SSL shared libraries
>
> isc-dhcp-client recommends no packages.
>
> Versions of packages isc-dhcp-client suggests:
> ii avahi-autoipd 0.6.26-1 Avahi IPv4LL network address confi
> pn resolvconf <none> (no description available)
>
> -- no debconf information
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