[lwip-users] Re: [lwip] DHCP client release 22-1-2002

[Adam Dunkels]

Hi Leon!

On Tuesday 22 January 2002 16.51, you wrote:
> It needs some timer support from your kernel or standalone application
> to implement the lease timers.
>
> Maybe these can be merged with lwIP timers some day, but as DHCP
> leases can exist very long, 32-bit timers are needed.

What do you think about using one lwIP timer that fires, say, every minute 
(60000 milliseconds and fits in a 16-bit short), and build you own longer 
running timer on that? It would make it simpler to include it in the main 
lwIP distribution (which I hope to do when you think it is ready to be).

/adam
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