What does dhcpcd do when it fails to lease an IP address?

bulldozer · 11-26-2006, 12:11 PM

I am just curious as to what dhcpcd does if it fails to lease an IP address other than bring down the interface. Does it do anything else?

Also, what is the difference between the commands:

Code:

ifconfig ath0 up

and

Code:

ifup ath0

Thanks
Brian

odd2k · 11-26-2006, 02:43 PM

ifup is just a simple bash script that calls ifconfig <stdin> up. No idea about the dhcp issue.

nuxrl · 11-26-2006, 04:57 PM

I never thought about what dhcpcd does if it fails to lease an IP address. Nothing is said in the man page, either. If you really want to find out, use dhcpcd with option "-d" would log everything in syslog. Maybe you can figure out what it really does from the log.