dhclient sucks

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Thu Jul 28 23:32:52 GMT 2005


> OK.  But there're still a mayor problem: now we lost and recover IP
> settings with media changes, while the standard dhcp behavior is
> maintaing IP settings until rebind or timeout.

agree that this is a problem.  i assume it will be fixed.

> Maybe of interest have a rc conf (in rc.conf or in if settings) to
> recover the previous DHCP semantics and maintain de daemon running and
> the IP unchanged even with madia changes.

i am not sure this is HOW to fix the problem.  i think state can
probably be maintained without saying how to maintain processes.

randy



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