Re: DHCP timeout patch

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 15:57 -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> 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?

Yeah, I guess we bump it up and try to be clever in the next major
release if we can.

Dan