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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
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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