Axalon Bloodstone wrote:
>
> On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, [iso-8859-1] Gr�goire Colbert wrote:
> >
> > PLEASE, make sure that the infamous PUMP has been replaced with DHCPCD
> > before you begin to burn Mdk61... I know I've already asked you a zillion
> > times, but please understand that using pump by default is a SERIOUS problem
> > for people who use cable-modems.
>
> pump worked fine here, before the modem roasted atleast. I'll ask the tech
> what they have at the headend here in denver for a dhcp server, when he
> gets here..
Listen : I really don't care about what your techie in Denver will say. It
seems that you are completely missing what is the problem.
The FACT is that you have two programs in Cooker that basically do the same
thing :
- one is called "pump"
- the other is called "dhcpcd"
Those programs are used when you want to get an IP adress from the server of
your provider, using a cable-modem and the DHCP protocol. YOU DON'T CHOOSE
YOUR CABLE PROVIDER. THERE IS ONLY ONE IN THE TOWN. If he is running NT on
his servers, and you are running Mdk60 which use the "pump" program to get
the IP, and that it fails 50% of the time, what can you do? Nothing. Just
tell the problem on cooker mailing list and say that dhcpcd is working much
better. Then you wait for an official patch. 1 month. 2 months.
One day, you decide to do the patch yourself. You try it during 3 days. You
don't have any problem : it works perfectly. You decide to send your patch
to the cooker list. You think that people will greet you for helping. But
no. No answer. Well, you think that they just don't have the time. You wait.
1 week away. Still no answer. Then you complain again, because you feel that
nobody cares of your problem, and that the next Mandrake will be shipped
with a bug that you corrected.
And then, at least, an answer. One guy explains you that he doesn't have the
problem personnally. So he doesn't care at all. In fact, this is just like
there is no problem. "Everything >/dev/null".
Listen, Axalon : "pump" is **NOT** DHCP compliant, and MANY PEOPLE have
problems with it. Pump works for you? Very fine. Do you consider that this
is a sufficient reason to let it as the default DHCP client in the next
Mandrake? Don't you think that DHCPCD could work just as fine for you, just
as it worked in Mandrake 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3 ?
If this is what you think, then there is probably a job for you at
Microsoft.
Gregus
