On Sun, 8 May 2022 09:20:25 -0400 Dan Ritter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Rick Thomas [2022-05-07 19:47:57] wrote: > > > According to the ISC webpage: > > >> ISC has ended development on the ISC DHCP client as of early > > >> 2022. This client implementation is no longer maintained and > > >> should not be used in production any longer. > > > Can anybody recommend a good replacement? > > > > Depends on your needs, but `busybox` provides a dhcp client that's > > good enough for the most common situations. > > > The package name is udhcpc. > > -dsr- > Right, it's not (yet?) tagged for provides/dhcp-client but at home would probably do the trick for me, too. Alternatively there's dhcpcd5, which is tagged and also specifically mentioned on the ISC's eom-page, though apparently a much broader solution. I'll be using the legacy one until it's actually removed from Debian and then switch to whatever is recommended, if anything and provided it's not networkd. Oliver https://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd
