dhclient sucks

[Mike Jakubik]

Peter Wemm wrote:

>Oh, how I wish dhclient could handle two interfaces!  The old one 
>allowed two interfaces, but was rather stupid about it.  There was no 
>way to specify which interface had priority, so the last one usually 
>won with its default routes.
>
>My gateway box at home has two ethernet interfaces that need dhcp.  It 
>seems I'm going to have to hack dhclient-script or something to get it 
>to do something sensible.  It shouldn't be that painful.
>
>Linux (gentoo in this case) has dhcpcd, which take switches to allow you 
>to tell it to not mess with resolv.conf or the default route.  No 
>hacking or pain required.  Unlike ours dhclient.
>
You can customize some of the behaviour of dhclient. See ``man 5 
dhclient.conf'' for details.