ntpdate and network interfaces

[Martin Pitt]

Hi!

Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy [2005-04-14 18:15 -0400]:
> I am looking at this list (and forums) and I see a lot of people
> complaining about dhclient trying to aquire a non-existing DHCP server,
> and ntpdate taking a long time to timeout if an interface is up but not
> configured (or doesn't have internet access). I wonder if a possible
> solution would be to make time synchronisation at startup optional
> (after all, there is an option to synch with an NTP server in the Time
> and Date applet). Also I was wondering if there are any other processes
> dependent on the network that start by default. If not, we could modify
> ifup scripts to start dhclient in the background, sleep for a few
> seconds just to give it a chance to aquire DHCP server if one is readily
> available and proceed as usual. The problem I am trying to address here
> is the behavior of dhclient which sends a lot of consequitive DHCP
> request packets increasing timeout value after each one, which results
> in a considerable pause if the server is just not there.

We are aware of this problem, and it will be discussed at the next
conference:

  http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDownUnder/BOFs/UbuntuDevelopment/FasterBoot

Martin

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