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Date:      Thu, 28 Jun 2018 01:23:32 +0200
From:      Philip Paeps <philip@trouble.is>
To:        Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com>
Cc:        Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r335612 - head/sbin/dhclient
Message-ID:  <20180627232332.GB97785@rincewind.trouble.is>
In-Reply-To: <CAGMYy3u_pBg8dogUFmnbkM2o9JvqJ08JV5-6hheVzcUj8dAXzw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201806250129.w5P1Ts5H017125@repo.freebsd.org> <CAGMYy3u_pBg8dogUFmnbkM2o9JvqJ08JV5-6hheVzcUj8dAXzw@mail.gmail.com>

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On 2018-06-25 11:40:48 (-0700), Xin LI wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 6:30 PM Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Author: eadler
>> Date: Mon Jun 25 01:29:54 2018
>> New Revision: 335612
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/335612
>>
>> Log:
>>   dhclient: recorrect __progname to getprogname()
>>
>>   A more correct way to modernize code that uses __progname is to just
>>   replace each occurance of it with a call to getprogname(3)
>
>We should probably take a look at dhcpcd or ISC dhclient and teach
>whatever we have chosen sandbox, etc.  The current FreeBSD dhclient is
>based on an ancient ISC dhclient fork with enhancements from OpenBSD
>(but not being kept up-to-date with OpenBSD) and do not support IPv6,
>etc.

The IPv6 support in ISC dhclient is basically having dhclient and 
dhclient6, which is a real pain to configure.  NetBSD's dhcpcd is 
probably the best DHCP client these days in terms of completeness.

Philip

-- 
Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Ministry of Information



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