When launchpad boots without network, it should not give up until reboot

[mich181189]

If the launchpad boots without network, it does not create things like announcers. This is not good because it means when the network does return, while the underlying network stack will probably recover, the ACNode software does not since it gave up after the first attempt

[zymurgic]

Observation: the standard Energia libraries lwIPDHCPWaitLeaseValid, called by Ethernet.begin() gives up after 60 seconds of waiting. Need to confirm that it will actually continue to try DHCP, and we should detect working networking more cleverly, presumably by looking for a non-linkLocal valid IPv4 address. A case for a nice function to do various networking tests?