Fwd: Rapid DHCP

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sun Jul 31 09:50:47 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 17:49 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> NM already keeps DHCP information around based on the network you're
> connecting to, so we don't need to ARP a bunch of servers just to
> determine whether the DHCP server we wanted is still there.  

That's fine on wireless, but not so useful on wired.

But who cares? RA works nice and fast; it's only Legacy IP that's
slow...

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dwmw2



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