From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 28 01:10:30 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 2D1F116A41F; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 01:10:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [66.127.85.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D79D243D48; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 01:10:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [66.127.85.94] ([66.127.85.94]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j6S1ARms074901 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:10:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <42E830A8.5020902@errno.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:11:04 -0700 From: Sam Leffler Organization: Errno Consulting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Blapp References: <20050728004611.A41682@cvs.imp.ch> In-Reply-To: <20050728004611.A41682@cvs.imp.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mike Jakubik , Doug Barton , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Peter Wemm , 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: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 01:10:30 -0000 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. Actually I consider having one dhclient per interface the most important difference between the new code and the old code. The amount of code required support a single dhclient for the entire system was very painful and led to subtle bugs. > > 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 ? I'm fine with this; in fact we discussed it early on. Sam