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Re: Retiring dhclient



On Nov 16, 2011, at 5:46 PM, Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> wrote:
> Yes, but lacking that, which your phone apparently doesn't have, and which
> NetBSD currently doesn't have, wouldn't a better alternative to nothing be
> a sane config that you could set once, when you did work it out, and would
> then just do the right thing every later time that you connect?

Sure, if your machine is bolted to a rack in a data center.  There is no way to 
hard code a network configuration on a mobile device that will work in any 
meaningful sense. The reason Android doesn't work is that the network 
configuration, for the same network, no less, keeps shifting. 


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