Suggestions

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 01:58:08PM +0200, Martijn van de Streek wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Naïve users will have no idea what DHCP is. :-) I think it's better to
> > attempt to pick a sane default first and then confirm it, which is
> > exactly what automatically trying DHCP constitutes.
> 
> Then maybe the timeout should be lowered? The timeout is quite long
> currently, afaik.

I don't think 15 seconds is really that much of a problem, and some DHCP
servers take nearly that long to reply. It was raised to 15 in response
to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=244819, which seemed
pretty reasonable to me.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]