On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:10:44AM -0500, Brian Grayson (home) wrote:
>   I'm no networking guru.  Can anyone tell me if that ifconfig to
> 0.0.0.0 is really necessary?  Is it only necessary if the iface is not
> already up?  I can ifconfig to 1.1.1.1, unplug the cable, plug it back
> in, and dhclient changes it to 192.168.0.18 like it should....

I don't think that most of dhclient-script is necessary. It looks
like a bunch of voodoo for cross-platform compatibility to me. I
am especially wary of the 'route add ... 127.0.0.1' and
'route delete ... 127.0.0.1' lines. Maybe somebody can explain
how the script is supposed to work.

Dave

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