Re: DHCP timeout patch

[Robert Love <rml novell com>]

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:35 -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> 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.

So, at 25s now, we are nearly 50% off.

Dan, what do you say to bumping the timeout to 40 or 45?

	Robert Love