Bug 143329

Summary:	tell dhcpcd to renew lease on interface
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Ludwig Nussel <lnussel>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Christian Zoz <zoz>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Alpha 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	patch for ifup another try. this time kill dhcpcd and then use regular start path to start it again.

Description Ludwig Nussel 2006-01-16 10:30:26 UTC

While browsing smpppd code I noticed the ugly smpppd-dhcp hack that blindly kills and starts a dhcpcd with fixed options on an interface after setting a new essid. What about integrating renewing a lease into ifup instead? One just needs to send SIGALRM to dhcpcd resp do nothing if the interface has a static ip. The attached quick hack works for me after symlinking ifrenew -> ifup and ifrenew-dhcp -> ifup-dhcp.

Comment 1 Ludwig Nussel 2006-01-16 10:30:56 UTC

Created attachment 63404 [details]
patch for ifup

Comment 2 Ludwig Nussel 2006-01-16 17:14:36 UTC

Created attachment 63500 [details]
another try. this time kill dhcpcd and then use regular start path to start it again.

Comment 3 Christian Zoz 2006-01-16 21:25:53 UTC

I added it to sysconfig package. Please check it properly.

(Stefan, sorry if you did duplicate work today. I was very busy and did not manage it properly. Please also have a look at this patch).

This still needs documentation.

Comment 4 Christian Zoz 2006-01-17 14:44:06 UTC

thanks Stefan for the manpage patch. is in svn.

since smpppd does now use ifrenew, we can close this bug.