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[Lucas Magasweran <external+ubuntu.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

initramfs network booting by default fails after a fixed number of
attempts/timeout to configure the network. For example, in an automation
environment with heavy DHCP usage, a system will give up trying to get a
DHCP lease after 265 seconds. This will require manual intervention or a
hardware watchdog to power-cycle the system in order to retry getting a
DHCP lease.

This patch for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS adds a notimeout kernel command line for
casper that tells configure_network to instead retry indefinitely with
an increasing retry interval.

** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: patch

** Patch added: "casper_ipconfig_notimeout.patch"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1489979/+attachment/4453916/+files/casper_ipconfig_notimeout.patch

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1489979

Title:
  initiramfs-tools: configure_network retry indefinitely option

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  initramfs network booting by default fails after a fixed number of
  attempts/timeout to configure the network. For example, in an
  automation environment with heavy DHCP usage, a system will give up
  trying to get a DHCP lease after 265 seconds. This will require manual
  intervention or a hardware watchdog to power-cycle the system in order
  to retry getting a DHCP lease.

  This patch for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS adds a notimeout kernel command line
  for casper that tells configure_network to instead retry indefinitely
  with an increasing retry interval.

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