Re: DHCP client with minimal functionality and size

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:04:20 -0400
Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost> wrote:

> For all the flaws of ISC dhclient the use of scripts for managing
> configuration files after state changes, and the set of variables it
> provides to them, are very well thought out.  Done properly --
> dhclient does not do it properly! -- it should make a DHCP client
> smaller, not larger, since all the work of writing ntp.conf etc. can
> be deferred to the shell.
> 
Thanks; I was about to post the same thing.  There are a fair number of
things I dislike about dhclient, but the scripts actually help the
size, since I already have a shell, ifconfig, etc., lying around.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb