Re: dhclient sucks

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.
>
> 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.
>
> Any suggestions ?

bring back the old one?

>
> Martin
>
> Martin Blapp, <mb_at_imp.ch> <mbr_at_FreeBSD.org>
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