Re: DHCP timeout is too short for this college network

[Marc Herbert <Marc Herbert gmail com>]

Daniel Gnoutcheff a écrit :
 
> OK, the problem I'm having is a college campus network that has really 
> slow DHCP severs. As in, up to 3 *minutes* to get a lease.
>
> [...]
>
> It's worth mentioning that the resident IT department has acknowledged 
> the problem. Sadly, it also seems like they aren't going to do anything 
> about it anytime soon, presumably because Windows and MacOS tolerate the 
> slowness. So in the meantime, it'd be great to get n-m to work with 
> networks like these -- and I volunteer to help! (This would be my first 
> time contributing to a software project, so it might take me a while, 
> but I'll give it my best shot.)

Do Windows and MacOS users actually tolerate waiting for 3 minutes before
getting online? I can imagine some non-Linux leverage here.