dhclient sucks

[Sean Winn]

Daniel O'Connor <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> said:

> On Wednesday 27 July 2005 11:31, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> > On Tue, July 26, 2005 9:53 pm, Peter Wemm said:
> > > I'd love to know which items in dhclient.conf allow you to disable the
> > > default route handling and the resolv.conf handling..
> >
> > supersede { [option declaration] [, ... option declaration] }
> >
> > Ex, I use "supersede domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;" to set my own name
> > server.
> 
> That just means you have to hardcode your resolver and default route into 
> dhclient.conf - there is no "Don't touch this setting on my computer
even if 
> the DHCP server tells you to" flag in the config file I believe.
> 

Wouldn't:

request subnet-mask,  broadcast-address;

Request only the attributes you want, and not the router, domain-name etc?


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