Re: NM 0.6.5 and dhcp behavior

From: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
To: "Philip A. Culver" <pculver bostonatlantic net>
Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
Subject: Re: NM 0.6.5 and dhcp behavior
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:53:39 -0500

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 11:00 -0500, Philip A. Culver wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> What is NetworkManager’s behavior if it can’t get a IP address from
> the DHCP server.   I see it seems to assign an auto IP 169…..   Will 

Correct.  It will assign an IPv4 autoip address.

> keep talking to the DHCP server and try to get an IP?

No.  That might be a nice thing to try though.  Can you file an RFE on
bugzilla.gnome.org for it?  If you don't have an account there then I'll
file it I guess.

Dan

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References:
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