[PATCH] udhcpc: add support IETF RFC2131 section-4.1 retransmission strategy

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Friday 28 September 2012 09:04, Frank TEO wrote:
> IETF RFC2131 section-4.1 retransmission strategy said
> 
> The client MUST adopt a retransmission strategy that incorporates a randomized exponential backoff algorithm...
> 
> first retransmission SHOULD be 4 seconds ...
> next retransmission SHOULD be 8 seconds ...
> retransmission delay SHOULD be doubled with subsequent retransmissions up to a maximum of 64 seconds.

How is this going to be useful?

I see only one effect: after DHCP server goes up after a prolonged outage,
clients will be slow at acquiring addresses. Not a good effect.

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