Re: dhclient sucks

From: Peter Wemm <peter_at_wemm.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:53:07 -0700
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 05:11 pm, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> 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.

I'd love to know which items in dhclient.conf allow you to disable the 
default route handling and the resolv.conf handling..

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Peter Wemm - peter_at_wemm.org; peter_at_FreeBSD.org; peter_at_yahoo-inc.com
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Received on Tue Jul 26 2005 - 23:53:08 UTC

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