From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 4 07:16:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20FCF16A420 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 07:16:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A7F143D45 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 07:16:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp208-69.lns1.adl2.internode.on.net [203.122.208.69]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k147GKiZ061783 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 4 Feb 2006 17:46:26 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 17:46:04 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <52993.24.90.33.115.1138913403.squirrel@mail.el.net> <61418.24.90.33.115.1139004207.squirrel@mail.el.net> <20060204005501.GD7613@isc.org> In-Reply-To: <20060204005501.GD7613@isc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1656700.0U6sozImiu"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200602041746.11157.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.54 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: "David W. Hankins" Subject: Re: dhclient in 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 07:16:29 -0000 --nextPart1656700.0U6sozImiu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:25, David W. Hankins wrote: > I thought that was why FreeBSD moved away from ISC DHCP to OpenBSD > dhclient? > > Actually, I guess I never did understand that move. Certainly, no > one ever explained it to me without a great deal of "wifi" handwaving. I was under the impression it was because ISC's dhclient was not per-interf= ace=20 which made life much more complicated when you have machines with, say, Wif= i=20 and wired ethernet (ie typical laptop these days) > I'm a pretty lucky guy, because I get paid to maintain the ISC > DHCP package. "See the world, write open source software," they > said. Yes, it does sound nice :) > Usually, you just have to keep your users happy to stay relevant in > open source. Not true in this case, I went to bed the night before > thinking FreeBSD was under my wing, happily being served well, and > woke up the next day in a world where ISC had been kicked out of the > house without so much as a bye-or-leave. Ask brooks@ since he imported it I guess.. It seems to be a classic case of mis-communication :( =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1656700.0U6sozImiu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBD5FS75ZPcIHs/zowRAnpSAJ98M7jlugg4BEpCWSb/++TV2C0/UwCgls0v /afGhDBg0lTCy9mrPGzSBVg= =8rGD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1656700.0U6sozImiu--