Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:11:08 -0400 From: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, =?UTF-8?B?TWF0ZXVzeiBKxJlkcmFzaWs=?= <imachine@toya.net.pl> Subject: Re: dhclient sucks Message-ID: <42E6D11C.9020905@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <200507261104.35752.peter@wemm.org> References: <42E583F9.3070703@rogers.com> <200507261403.01515.imachine@toya.net.pl> <200507261104.35752.peter@wemm.org>
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Peter Wemm wrote: >Oh, how I wish dhclient could handle two interfaces! The old one >allowed two interfaces, but was rather stupid about it. There was no >way to specify which interface had priority, so the last one usually >won with its default routes. > >My gateway box at home has two ethernet interfaces that need dhcp. It >seems I'm going to have to hack dhclient-script or something to get it >to do something sensible. It shouldn't be that painful. > >Linux (gentoo in this case) has dhcpcd, which take switches to allow you >to tell it to not mess with resolv.conf or the default route. No >hacking or pain required. Unlike ours dhclient. > You can customize some of the behaviour of dhclient. See ``man 5 dhclient.conf'' for details.
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