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Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: dhclient sucks
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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 ?

Martin

Martin Blapp, <mb@imp.ch> <mbr@FreeBSD.org>
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