From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 27 23:04:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE6516A41F; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:04:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6676743D46; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:04:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j6RN4F28011024; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:04:15 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id j6RN4FQJ011023; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:04:15 -0700 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:04:15 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Martin Blapp Message-ID: <20050727230415.GB7618@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20050728004611.A41682@cvs.imp.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="O5XBE6gyVG5Rl6Rj" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050728004611.A41682@cvs.imp.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: Doug Barton , Peter Wemm , Mike Jakubik , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, David Gilbert Subject: Re: dhclient sucks X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:04:16 -0000 --O5XBE6gyVG5Rl6Rj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:56:36AM +0200, Martin Blapp wrote: >=20 > Hi, >=20 > >Are there plans to fix the gaping functionality holes in dhclient, or > >can we get the isc client back? >=20 > 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) >=20 > 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 --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --O5XBE6gyVG5Rl6Rj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFC6BLuXY6L6fI4GtQRAgTBAJ47N5TIs1r+RrnD42koI1vnfCKDtwCXS70v FpPzlwRQgn/bp24sJkw8xw== =gDij -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --O5XBE6gyVG5Rl6Rj--