Re: DHCP timeout patch

[Peter Jones <pjones redhat com>]

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:57 -0500, Darren Albers wrote:
> > I have had other bug reports that users need DHCP timeouts in the 30~40
> > second range.  To be sure, most ifup scripts wait longer than 25s.
> >
> 
> I think a timeout in the 30-40 second range would also resolve the
> issues with portfast...

45 or so is generally what's claimed.  But this isn't a good answer for
spanning tree -- it means if you really don't have dhcp on your network,
we're punishing you by making you wait extra long for before falling
back to other methods.

-- 
  Peter, who has learned a serious hatred for STP.