Re: DHCP timeouts

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 7/25/07, Derek Atkins <warlord mit edu> wrote:
> At the IETF they're having a slight DHCP issue where sometimes it
> can take a minute or more to get a response.  Yeah, this is a
> broken DHCP server, but NM seems to time out at 45 second,
> whereas running dhclient directly (via ifup) seems to do a
> much better job, mostly because it doesn't stop at 45 seconds.
> Is there some way to configure NM to extend that time?  I looked
> in gconf but couldn't find a configuration parameter to set
> the DHCP timeout.  Does one exist or is 45s hardcoded?
>
> -derek
> --

Unfortunately 45 Seconds is hard coded in nm-dhcp-manager.c