New feature: zeroconf networking by default, please test

[Martin Pitt]

Hi,

Mikael Eriksson [2006-12-14  2:42 +0100]:
> Will dhclient continue to run after a link-layer address is set?
> This would be nice since my ISP's dhcp server is sometimes very slow at
> responding.

Depends. If you use network-manager, then dhcdbd will call dhclient in
one-shot mode (with option -1), and it will not automatically
reattempt a DHCP request.

If you use ifupdown (i. e. configure your device in
/etc/network/interfaces, and it is automatically brought up at boot
time), then dhclient keeps running and should wake up from time to
time to reattempt DHCP. I haven't tested this yet, though.

Martin

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