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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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