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man: adjust description of MaxAttempts
authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Wed, 7 Oct 2020 12:13:39 +0000 (14:13 +0200)
committerYu Watanabe <watanabe.yu+github@gmail.com>
Mon, 30 Nov 2020 03:37:36 +0000 (12:37 +0900)
The code was changed in 715cedfbf03a2eb1d4dca5d1b2b876e52a3b652d to allow more than
six attempts and the old description stopped making sense.

man/systemd.network.xml

index 70e1608c4ac446fe5ff6c24007b418e7fb2d060c..1f389a05f3dde31b7e20b98c456bfe9d39be310f 100644 (file)
@@ -1664,9 +1664,9 @@ IPv6Token=prefixstable:2002:da8:1::</programlisting></para>
           <term><varname>MaxAttempts=</varname></term>
           <listitem>
             <para>Specifies how many times the DHCPv4 client configuration should be attempted. Takes a
-            number or <literal>infinity</literal>. Defaults to <literal>infinity</literal>.
-            Note that the time between retries is increased exponentially, so the network will not be
-            overloaded even if this number is high.</para>
+            number or <literal>infinity</literal>. Defaults to <literal>infinity</literal>. Note that the
+            time between retries is increased exponentially, up to approximately one per minute, so the
+            network will not be overloaded even if this number is high.</para>
           </listitem>
         </varlistentry>