Bug 146450

Summary:	Network install boot disk: DHCP timeout too long
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Olav Reinert <seroton10>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Peter Poeml <poeml>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	suse-beta
Version:	Beta 2
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
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Description Olav Reinert 2006-01-28 16:11:28 UTC

The boot disk used to do a network install of SUSE Linux 10.1 correctly detects my two network interfaces, eth0 and eth1. It also tries to configure them both using DHCP, which is fine, too. But the timeout for the DHCP requests is way too long, about 1 minute I guess - 5-10 seconds would be more appropriate at this stage, I think.

Otherwise, an unnecessary delay of 1 minute is introduced for each network interface on the machine that isn't configurable by DHCP.

How about performing DHCP requests on all relevant interfaces in parallel?

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-01-30 15:03:50 UTC

Could be seen else in larger/slower networks, but 1 minute seems a bit long indeed. Redirecting as enhancement to the maintainer.

Comment 2 Peter Poeml 2006-01-31 17:24:05 UTC

Steffen? Do you think 1 minute is too long? Should we reduce the timeout
to 30 seconds maybe?

Comment 3 Steffen Winterfeldt 2006-02-01 11:10:57 UTC

It was set to 60s on request because is was really required in large
network setups. Use dhcptimeout=foo if you want to shorten it.