Re: DHCP timeout is too short for this college network
- From: Marc Herbert <Marc Herbert gmail com>
- To: networkmanager-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: DHCP timeout is too short for this college network
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:56:38 +0000
>> Do Windows and MacOS users actually tolerate waiting for 3 minutes before
>> getting online? I can imagine some non-Linux leverage here.
>
> They probably don't tolerate 3 minutes to get a DHCPOFFER, but they may
> tolerate 3 minutes for the *whole* transaction if an OFFER has been
> received within some lower timeout.
Dan: here I was not talking about software but about people. Let me
rephrase:
Do HUMAIN BEINGS using Windows and MacOS tolerate waiting for 3 minutes
before getting online? I can imagine some non-Linux leverage here.
I see little value in "enhancing" NM to support DHCP servers so wrong
that they make *everyone's* life miserable (including Windows and MacOS
users).
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