re: CVS commit: src/share/man/man5

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 02/10/2012 23:23, matthew green wrote:
> > Committed By:   roy
> > Date:           Tue Oct  2 09:18:59 UTC 2012
> >
> > Modified Files:
> >         src/share/man/man5: ifconfig.if.5 rc.conf.5
> >
> > Log Message:
> > Discourage the use of ifconfig_bge0=dhcp and prefer setting 
> > dhcpcd=YES
> > in rc.conf(5) instead.
>
> can you explain why?
>
> i actually really like that dhcpcd (can) run on a per-interface 
> basis,
> and that i can control all this easily from rc.conf.

You can control dhcpcd on a per interface basis in dhcpcd.conf as well.
When running as single daemon you get the following benefits:
* Interface addition/removal support
* Intelligent routing preference if >1 interface connected to the same 
subnet or more than one default gateway present
* dhcpcd-dbus and thus dhcpcd-gtk support

None of these may be attractive to you personally, but this simple 
change would cut out about 80% of the support requests I get and that's 
quite attractive to me.

Thanks

Roy