Well, there may be some value in using threads (or fork) here, but you will probably have to focus on making your code efficient to make it work well.

If I were you I'd run a fairly small bunch of concurrent processes or threads (not a lot more than you have CPUs in your target machine) that would each do asynchronous DHCP requests (in other words, have each thread initiate a lot of requests, and handle the responses as they come in, instead of waiting for the response before doing the next request).

An event handling system is going to be much more efficient than threads for this kind of problem, and the only reason you really want to use threads or fork is to spread the load better over multiple processors (though you may not even need to).

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re^3: multi threading by Joost
in thread multi threading by mude

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