Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 17:07:52 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org>, David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Subject: Re: dhclient sucks Message-ID: <42E821D8.9060702@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20050728004611.A41682@cvs.imp.ch> References: <20050728004611.A41682@cvs.imp.ch>
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Martin Blapp wrote: > > 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 ? bring back the old one? > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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