On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Thomas Charron wrote:
> What's up with pump? Is there some secret to it, or does it just not that
> great at times with certain dhcp servers? Does RH 6.2 update this?
pump is, according to the documentation, a "a daemon that manages network
interfaces that are controlled by either the DHCP or BOOTP protocol". It
appears to simply be another implementation of a DHCP client. What advantages
over "dhcpcd" it is supposed to have, I don't know.
Now, a new DHCP client would be okay with me, if it worked. But pump is
currently in 0.x versions, and doesn't appear to be ready for prime time.
Why Red Hat decided to replace dhcpcd with it, I don't know.
When I was setting up the Linux Lab at NHCTC, I found that the version of
pump distributed with RHL 6.1 did not work with their DHCP server. I needed
to get an updated RPM out of the *maintainer's home directory* on
people.redhat.com to get it to work.
RHL 6.2 does ship with a newer version then 6.1, and it does fix several
bugs (especially hangs).
--
Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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