From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 10 01:04:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA02100 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 01:04:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA02095 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 01:04:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id BAA12887 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 01:04:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 01:04:18 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which DHCP client Message-ID: <19990210010418.B8770@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199902091904.LAA12340@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <199902091904.LAA12340@pinhead.parag.codegen.com>; from Parag Patel on Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 11:04:27AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK, I've decided to import the ISC client. I am not pleased with this choice, but I believe the FreeBSD community in general seems to prefer this choice. Swaying arguments: 1. OpenBSD uses the ISC client and keep a careful eye on it for software engineering issues. (which is really all that buffov problems are) 2. Mike Smith's emails (priv and public) show that the ISC client offers us more options in configuring a system than the WIDE client. Issues include sysinstall bootstrapping support and /etc/rc* hooks. For the record, version 2 of the ISC client *DOES* in fact require an /etc/dhclient.conf file: # dhclient fxp0 Can't open /etc/dhclient.conf: No such file or directory exiting. this is stupid and I have a mind to change it to: Can't open /etc/dhclient.conf: using built-in defaults continuing. Also, /etc/dhclient-script *IS* required: # dhclient fxp0 /tmp/dcsFoU405: /etc/dhclient-script: not found /tmp/dcsWOk405: /etc/dhclient-script: not found fxp0: not found exiting. NOTE that unlike the WIDE client, the ISC client defaults to overwriting your /etc/resolv.conf file. In my case, an action that pisses me off because I now have to write a messy /etc/dhclient.conf file to stop this nonsence. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message