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Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: dhclient sucks
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Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 July 2005 11:31, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, July 26, 2005 9:53 pm, Peter Wemm said:
>>
>>>I'd love to know which items in dhclient.conf allow you to disable the
>>>default route handling and the resolv.conf handling..
>>
>>supersede { [option declaration] [, ... option declaration] }
>>
>>Ex, I use "supersede domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;" to set my own name
>>server.
> 
> 
> That just means you have to hardcode your resolver and default route into 
> dhclient.conf - there is no "Don't touch this setting on my computer even if 
> the DHCP server tells you to" flag in the config file I believe.
> 

Part of the point of going to the new codebase was to free us from being 
locked into vendor sources that we couldn't easily change.  If there is 
a need for a new option, please code it up and commit it!

Scott