Hi Buchan,
it's funny - in my 10 Years of working with Linux - I did not manage to get
dhclient working reliably - it always screwed my DNS (/etc/resolve.conf file)
as I have my own Name-Server running - it screwed that one too.
Pump - IMHO - is simple - small and does what I wanted it to do. Nothing else.
dhclient might be better for automated installation tools - if they work.
However - if you are an old networking guy who knows what he's doing - I have
to admit that pump does whatever you need - and does not interfere with the
rest.
And in this case - a user had a problem related to the complexity of dhclient
IMHO ...
Just my 2 cents.
Cheers
Joerg
On Monday 21 July 2003 11:11, Buchan Milne wrote:
> Joerg Mertin wrote:
> > Hi Ed,
> >
> > try it out this way:
> > Check if pump is installed - if not - install it.
> > Check it with: rpm -q pump
> > If this command doesn't return a thing - issue: urpmi pump
> > Make sure there is not another dhcp programm running:
> > ps auxwww | grep dhcp
> > If there is one - check which one that is, stop this program - and
>
> remove the
>
> > package. If you know where the binary is - a: rpm -qf /sbin/dhcpd
> > b.e. will tell yo the package name, a rpm -e <package-name> will
>
> remove it.
>
> Please don't suggest to people to use pump over dhclient, unless you
> have filed a bug on dhclient for whatever the reason is that you suggest
> using pump over it.
>
> dhclient is much more capable (client updates in dns, returns more
> "options" values from the dhcp server for example), and if there is
> something wrong with the way it works, we need to know that, unless you
> believe it is better for users to continue hacking workarounds like this
> in the future.
>
> Regards,
> Buchan
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