Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:11:04 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> Cc: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org>, David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Subject: Re: dhclient sucks Message-ID: <42E830A8.5020902@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <20050728004611.A41682@cvs.imp.ch> References: <20050728004611.A41682@cvs.imp.ch>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?42E830A8.5020902>