From b74174ef3b647967dfb757fd0dc9e90d3394612c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jason Vas Dias Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:13:38 +0000 Subject: fixed bug #120093: added PERSISTANT_DHCLIENT option to ifcfg files --- sysconfig.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/sysconfig.txt b/sysconfig.txt index 0ab172c6..9bc4322e 100644 --- a/sysconfig.txt +++ b/sysconfig.txt @@ -543,6 +543,15 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ Set the hardware address for this device to this. Use of this in conjunction with HWADDR= may cause unintended behavior. + PERSISTANT_DHCLIENT=yes|no|1|0 + Without this option, or if it is 'no'/'0', and BOOTPROTO=dhcp, + dhclient is run for the interface in "one-shot" mode; if the + dhcp server does not respond for a configurable timeout, then + dhclient exits and the interface is not brought up - + the '-1' option is given to dhclient. + If PERSISTANT_DHCLIENT=yes, then dhclient will keep on trying + to contact the dhcp server when it does not respond - no '-1' + option is given to dhclient. If BOOTPROTO is not "none", then the only other item that must be set is the DEVICE item; all the rest will be determined -- cgit v1.2.1