From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 08:56:39 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA08654 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:56:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hebe.or.intel.com (hebe.or.intel.com [134.134.248.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA08648; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:56:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wscott@ichips.intel.com) Received: from ichips-jf.jf.intel.com (ichips-jf.jf.intel.com [134.134.50.200]) by hebe.or.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.6 1998/11/24 22:10:56 iwep Exp iwep $) with ESMTP id JAA21906; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 09:06:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from pdxlx103.pdx.intel.com (pdxlx103.pdx.intel.com [137.102.207.189]) by ichips-jf.jf.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: internal.m4,v 1.2 1998/11/09 19:18:37 iwep Exp iwep $) with ESMTP id IAA01443; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:56:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pdxlx103.pdx.intel.com (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA96430; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 08:56:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wscott@ichips.intel.com) To: root@nomad.dataplex.net Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 8 Feb 1999 23:11:54 -0600 (CST)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on Emacs 20.3 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990209085604Y.wscott@ichips.intel.com> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 08:56:04 -0800 From: Wayne Scott X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 19 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Charlie ROOT > Although it is somewhat larger, the ISC dhcp2 client has significantly > more flexability WRT options beyond the bare basics. > > I would recommend that the default client on HD based systems be the > ISC client because of that flexability. I have to agree here. The problem with ISC is the example configuration file in the manpage is much too complicated. It scares people off. 99% of the people don't need that. My config file is: send host-name "pdxlx103"; One line that's it. -Wayne To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message