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diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/dhclient.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/dhclient.adoc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9d6468aa54 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2024-07-2024-09/dhclient.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +=== Changes to dhclient to speed up the FreeBSD boot process + +Links: + +link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2024Projects/SpeedingUpTheFreeBSDBootProcess[Speeding up the FreeBSD boot process] URL: link:https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2024Projects/SpeedingUpTheFreeBSDBootProcess[] + + +link:https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1368[dhclient Pull Request] URL: link:https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1368[] + + +Contact: Isaac Cilia Attard <icattard@FreeBSD.org> + +As part of my Google Summer of Code 2024 project, involving speeding up the FreeBSD boot process, I have worked on decreasing the time it takes for ARP resolution within dhclient to happen. +This involved reducing the default ARP resolution timeout from 2000 ms to 250 ms, and adding an option to disable it altogether. +The latter is useful within cloud environments, where a node is certain to have an IP address allotted to it. + +As a consequence of this, connecting to a DHCP network is now faster, including the boot process during which this happens. +The speedup experienced is about 2 seconds. + +This causes FreeBSD systems to boot significantly faster than before. + +Sponsor: Google LLC (GSoC 2024) |