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WolleTD

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Registered: 2012-11-13

Posts: 70

netctl: Retry connection on DHCP failure

So I'm in the following situation:

Our university wireless network often has DHCP issues and it takes thousands of millions of retries until you finally get an address. The problem is, netctl-auto doesn't retry to connect to the network on a failure. It just stops doing anything.

Is there a way to get netctl to retry a profile until it's working when there are no other networks in range configured?

Wolle

bachtiar

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Registered: 2005-02-08

Posts: 65

Re: netctl: Retry connection on DHCP failure

Anyone looking at this should check this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=190141

Basically, it boils down to adding "-b" switch to dhcpcd.