How can I do retry parameter on dhclient and VyOS?

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Hi,

I’m using VyOS 1.1.7 (helium)

In one place I get Internet through a plain DHCP client (and not with PPPoE). That DHCP server is deaf and I have to try DHCP for 3 or 4 min. As default timeout is 60 seconds this means that most of the times after a reboot/maintenance task I have manual reconnecting issues, so I do:

sudo su
dhclient ethX
dhclient ethX
dhclient ethX
dhclient ethX

until it connects …

sometimes works on first try because my VyOS config according to show config command is:

ethernet ethX {
    address dhcp
    duplex auto
    smp_affinity auto
    speed auto
}

In my debian stretch laptop there is a file /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf with some default parameters. There I can change timeout or retry (retries after timeout/fail). I did a quick test and works (put timeout and retry to 1 and do dhclient eth0 -v -d).

This file in VyOS is located in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf but it is empty. My question is: if I can put in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf a retry of 60 seconds for example. Or where this should go.

extra: Looks like a bug I think I did dhclient with no arguments and it deadlock the system (don’t try that on a production place)

Thanks for reading,
Tirka