udhcp discovery takes minutes

[Paul Fox]

 > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:49:11PM +0100, Bruno Cornec wrote:
 > > Danny Sung said on Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:40:58PM -0800:
 > > 
 > > > I'm using udhcpc as packaged in busybox 1.9.0.  For some reason initial 
 > > > discovery can sometimes take several minutes (though once in a while 
 > > > it'll complete in seconds).  I had previously been using busybox 1.6.1, 
 > > > which didn't have any of these problems.
 > > > 
 > > [...]
 > > > Anyone else encounter issues like this?
 > > 
 > > I have a similar issue running busybox 1.7.3 on itanium. As you said the
 > > discovery is long, and once the IP address is received, everything works
 > > fine after (doing NFS restore without issue)
 > 
 > I'm running 1.8.2 on i386, and don't see this; 1.0.1, 1.1.1, and 1.8.1 were also
 > fine.

same here, on 1.8.1/1.8.2.  (and it happens that we've recently done
some extensive testing in this area.)

paul
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