Re: dhclient sucks

From: Brooks Davis <brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:04:15 -0700
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:56:36AM +0200, 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.

It makes some things easier and some things harder.

> 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.

If we can't get things under control soon, we can look at alternate
options.  IMO, using the port isn't really an option because it wouldn't
allow users to install, but worst case reviving your version of the ISC
code for 6.x might be feasiable.  I'd really like to avoid that route
though.

-- Brooks

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