Just wanted to mention something that I haven't seen mentioned here in
all the flaming and whatnot.
OpenBSD ships out-of-the-box with dhcp client support available as an
install option. This turned out to be very nice when I was installing
it on one of my friend's Sparcs. His network is on a DSL link and has
to run with DHCP - he has no static IPs available at all. OpenBSD
installed and runs just fine with his network.
We also tried to get Solaris7 going on one of his other Sparcs but it
was a royal pain to figure out how to turn on dhcp for it. It didn't
switch it on during the install nor give any hints as to how do do so.
All in all, OpenBSD made a far more favorable impression on my friend
than Solaris.
So from a practical point-of-view, I think adding dhcp client support
to FreeBSD is a good thing.
Also, the argument about which dhcp server/client is better than the
other, if I may suggest looking at and perhaps importing the OpenBSD
code? The CHANGES file lists a bunch of security and bug fixes. I
can't tell where the code is derived from.
-- Parag Patel
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