On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 11:40:51PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > also sprach xsdg (on Thu, 01 Mar 2001 11:29:05PM -0500): > > > (dhcpcd is obsolete; It's been removed from Debian because it is > > do what? i missed something. oh, and dhcpcd is not the dhcp daemon, > but the dhcp client daemon,
Yes. > and it's so much better than pump... I don't find it better than pump. Last I checked, it does dumb stuff like giving up after a while and leaving the interface down. If my cable modem provider is doing an upgrade so there is a temporary outage, dhcpcd would (after an hour or so) give up and bring down the network connection, leaving me disconnected even after my cable modem came back online. I don't know how pump would handle the situation, since I've stopped using dhcp except to obtain an IP config initially. My ISP doesn't capriciously change my IP address, so I statically config my interfaces. (Sure, this breaks things when the IP does actually change, but I want that, because in that case I need to change the DNS A record for llama.nslug.ns.ca so my email will come in, so I want large breakage right away that will catch my attention :) See http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc-0102/msg00097.html and http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc-0102/msg00126.html to find out what the current state of DHCP in Debian is. As you can see, there is a dhcp-client package. It might float your boat better than pump, if you don't like pump. It's interesting to note that even though apt-cache search dhcpcd only finds pump, (i.e. dhcpcd is not part of woody anymore), you can still download the dhcpcd package through packages.debian.org/dhcpcd, and it's on the mirrors. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
