[oe] [PATCH v2] busybox-1.11.3/busybox-1.13.2: enable backgrounding for udhcpc
John Faith
jfaith at soundmetrics.com
Tue Jun 15 16:01:55 UTC 2010
Henri Bragge wrote:
> Steffen Sledz wrote:
>
>> * The former default behaviour was to exit with failure if lease is not
>> immediately obtained. This results in permanent network disconnect if DHCP
>> server is (accidentally) not available at boot time. :(
>>
>> * Since bb 1.14 this is no longer hardcoded and can be configured.
>>
>
> Works for me. I'm still not sure if -b should be hardcoded (it could be
> passed through udhcpc_opts). On the other hand, if someone does not want
> to leave udhcpc in the background they can just pass -n to it, which
> seems to override -b. So this fix seems fine.
>
>
I'd like to have 3 possible network modes: dhcp, zeroconf, or static IP
and want to switch between them on-the-fly. It looks like the non-dhcp
modes can be done using a script or 2 in /etc/udhcpc.d, so it seems
having udhcpcd running in the background would facilitate this. Does
that sound right?
,
John
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