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I have been using the DHCPD from dhcp-isc for a couple of years now (Version 2 Patchlevel 5, from 'uClinux-dist-20071107.tar.bz2') on a NIOS system. After increasing the network traffic, I discovered...
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Honored Contributor --- Quote Start --- Detecting an array of 100 clients took nearly five minutes with busybox (almost 3 seconds each), while the ISC DHCPD needed only 30 seconds. Is this the expec --- Quote End --- Are you using the busybox DHCP server ? I was talking about the DHCP client as I have not tested the dhcp sever and so I can't decently comment on same. But my suspicion is that the dhcp server is started by inetd on any DHCP request,; and loading and starting a busybox tool is slow (due to no XIP and no shared library) as the complete huge "busybox" executable needs to be copied into RAM, which takes some time. -Michael
