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authorKenneth R Westerback <krw@cvs.openbsd.org>2011-03-26 23:17:51 +0000
committerKenneth R Westerback <krw@cvs.openbsd.org>2011-03-26 23:17:51 +0000
commit7f651c9227e4b1f825077989099b44fd87db948f (patch)
tree103b664c1519a36945153352b79d9b0d4b5bc757 /sbin/dhclient
parent30012a43c098062d49297ed0719c5a168084ed8a (diff)
Correct described default for initial-interval. It is three, not
ten, seconds. Use words not numerals consistently when naming various timing values. Tweak one clumsy sentence.
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/dhclient')
-rw-r--r--sbin/dhclient/dhclient.conf.512
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/dhclient/dhclient.conf.5 b/sbin/dhclient/dhclient.conf.5
index cb1dec72a34..48f2c297443 100644
--- a/sbin/dhclient/dhclient.conf.5
+++ b/sbin/dhclient/dhclient.conf.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: dhclient.conf.5,v 1.17 2008/10/05 20:36:00 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: dhclient.conf.5,v 1.18 2011/03/26 23:17:50 krw Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 The Internet Software Consortium.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
.\" see ``http://www.isc.org/isc''. To learn more about Vixie
.\" Enterprises, see ``http://www.vix.com''.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: October 5 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 26 2011 $
.Dt DHCLIENT.CONF 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ The
.Ic backoff-cutoff
statement determines the maximum amount of time that the client is
allowed to back off.
-It defaults to 15 seconds.
+It defaults to fifteen seconds.
.It Ic initial-interval Ar time ;
The
.Ic initial-interval
@@ -153,14 +153,14 @@ Each time a message is sent, the interval between messages is incremented by
twice the current interval multiplied by a random number between zero and one.
If it is greater than the backoff-cutoff amount, it is set to that
amount.
-It defaults to ten seconds.
+It defaults to three seconds.
.It Ic link-timeout Ar time ;
The
.Ic link-timeout
statement sets the amount of time to wait for an interface link before timing
out.
-The default value is 10 seconds, but the special value 0 requests that dhclient
-not wait for a link state change before timing out.
+The default value is ten seconds. The value zero requests that
+dhclient not wait for a link state change before timing out.
.El
.Sh LEASE REQUIREMENTS AND REQUESTS
The DHCP protocol allows the client to request that the server send it