From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 10:58:58 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22470 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:58:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pinhead.parag.codegen.com ([207.44.235.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22460 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:58:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from parag@cgt.com) Received: from pinhead.parag.codegen.com (parag@localhost.parag.codegen.com [127.0.0.1]) by pinhead.parag.codegen.com (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12296 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:58:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from parag@pinhead.parag.codegen.com) Message-Id: <199902091858.KAA12296@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ X-Face: =O'Kj74icvU|oS*<7gS/8'\Pbpm}okVj*@UC!IgkmZQAO!W[|iBiMs*|)n*`X ]pW%m>Oz_mK^Gdazsr.Z0/JsFS1uF8gBVIoChGwOy{EK=<6g?aHE`[\S]C]T0Wm X-URL: http://www.codegen.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 10:58:51 -0800 From: Parag Patel Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just wanted to mention something that I haven't seen mentioned here in all the flaming and whatnot. OpenBSD ships out-of-the-box with dhcp client support available as an install option. This turned out to be very nice when I was installing it on one of my friend's Sparcs. His network is on a DSL link and has to run with DHCP - he has no static IPs available at all. OpenBSD installed and runs just fine with his network. We also tried to get Solaris7 going on one of his other Sparcs but it was a royal pain to figure out how to turn on dhcp for it. It didn't switch it on during the install nor give any hints as to how do do so. All in all, OpenBSD made a far more favorable impression on my friend than Solaris. So from a practical point-of-view, I think adding dhcp client support to FreeBSD is a good thing. Also, the argument about which dhcp server/client is better than the other, if I may suggest looking at and perhaps importing the OpenBSD code? The CHANGES file lists a bunch of security and bug fixes. I can't tell where the code is derived from. -- Parag Patel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message