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Date:      Thu, 16 Apr 1998 21:52:40 +0100
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Discussion : Using DHCP to obtain configuration.
Message-ID:  <l03020903b15c1ec15504@[194.32.164.2]>
In-Reply-To: <199804160151.SAA00388@antipodes.cdrom.com>

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At 2:51 am +0100 16/4/98, Mike Smith wrote:
>
>There are three basic approaches we can take to integrating DHCP
>clienthood with FreeBSD:
>
> 1 Nothing

Should be quick and easy to implement :-)

> 2 Offer a simple choice between "traditional" static configuration, and
>   "use DHCP" configuration.

Preferable I believe, because...

> 3 Use the DHCP client for everything.

...this option would introduce yet another chunk of mechanism which has to
be working before one's system will DTRT.


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