Re: DHCP client with minimal functionality and size

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 04:03:24AM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> 
> There, that wasn't that much of a PITA was it?

Well, it's a PITA because, of course, it's not possible to make it
do what most people who maintain their own configuration files want, if
they're using DHCP at all: *provide* the information returned by the
server to code under their control, so they can use it, but not
*overwrite* the configuration files themselves.

For all its flaws, dhclient really gets this just right, and basically
every other dhcp client gets it very, very wrong.

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  Thor Lancelot Simon                                        
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