[TriLUG] dhclient woes

[Bill Farrow]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Michael Peterson <yieter at gmail.com> wrote:
> RH-based systems default to including the "-1" option to dhclient
> which makes it only go through one cycle of requesting an address
> before it exits.  That behavior is controlled by PERSISTENT_DHCLIENT
> that Darryl mentioned.  I only have one Ubuntu system and it doesn't
> use dhclient, so I can't tell if that's the default on ubuntu or not.

Unfortunately PERSISTENT_DHCLIENT is a Red Hat only config setting.

I suspect that dhclient is dying for some reason.

Bill