[systemd-devel] Systemd-networkd -- Cannot acquire DHCP lease on bridge interface

[Tom Gundersen]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Lennart Poettering
<lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 23.10.14 13:24, Tom Gundersen (teg at jklm.no) wrote:
>
>> > Trying unicast, waiting some time and then trying broadcast, if a DHCP offer
>> > is not sent within that time limit, seems like a fair thing to do. My 2
>> > cents.
>>
>> Yeah, it seems this is what we should do. I guess it makes sense to
>> make RequestBroadcast=yes|no|automatic, and default to the latter.
>
> Please name it "auto", not "automatic"...
>
> Please make the time short enough though to still give a nice
> feeling...
>
> I figure the reverse of first trying broadcast, and then trying
> unicast is unnecessary, right?

Yeah, I don't think it makes sense to expose this implementation
detail. The preference should be for unicast if we don't know any
better, as that causes slightly less network traffic, so I think we
should do a couple of unicasts only before starting to do both, but
that's not anything the user should care about.

Cheers,

Tom