From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 12:13:39 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: man: adjust description of MaxAttempts
X-Git-Tag: v248-rc1~613^2~9
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=573b02f5c15c49a402be3559f141f4158bd0fc5c;p=thirdparty%2Fsystemd.git

man: adjust description of MaxAttempts

The code was changed in 715cedfbf03a2eb1d4dca5d1b2b876e52a3b652d to allow more than
six attempts and the old description stopped making sense.
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diff --git a/man/systemd.network.xml b/man/systemd.network.xml
index 70e1608c4ac..1f389a05f3d 100644
--- a/man/systemd.network.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.network.xml
@@ -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>