Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:56:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient sucks Message-ID: <20050728004611.A41682@cvs.imp.ch>
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Hi, >Are there plans to fix the gaping functionality holes in dhclient, or >can we get the isc client back? Please remember that the ISC version was a heavily modified version (done by me) which polled the interface status. It worked rather good, but had some issues (which are negligable if you compare it with the current mess) The startup issue is really a problem, so IMHO it is wrong to use one dhcp-client per interface. This makes it also more difficult to maintain more than one interface with dhcp. I propose to make a knob into the rc.conf to make it possible to use the old isc dhclient, because there is also a port of it available. Of course devd etc needs to handle this too. Any suggestions ? Martin Martin Blapp, <mb@imp.ch> <mbr@FreeBSD.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------ ImproWare AG, UNIXSP & ISP, Zurlindenstrasse 29, 4133 Pratteln, CH Phone: +41 61 826 93 00 Fax: +41 61 826 93 01 PGP: <finger -l mbr@freebsd.org> PGP Fingerprint: B434 53FC C87C FE7B 0A18 B84C 8686 EF22 D300 551E ------------------------------------------------------------------
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