Re: DHCP timeout is too short for this college network

[Benoit Boissinot <bboissin+networkmanager gmail com>]

2010/1/11 José Queiroz <zekkerj gmail com>:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> NM needs a lot of fixes and improvements, but I think that in this
> case, it is completely innocent.
>
> Your dhcp server is too lazy, as you can see: it only answered for the
> initial DHCPDISCOVER on the third attempt, the same for the other
> messages of the DHCP sequence.
>
> Maybe you should ask for the support team to analyze the traffic
> exchanged between your station and the dhcp server, to understand why
> the messages are being lost.

I've seen cases (wired network) where the communication actually work
only about 60 seconds after the the interface it brought up (I think
it has to do with some interaction with the switches). Maybe that's
the case here?

regards,

Benoit