On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:25, David W. Hankins wrote: > I thought that was why FreeBSD moved away from ISC DHCP to OpenBSD > dhclient? > > Actually, I guess I never did understand that move. Certainly, no > one ever explained it to me without a great deal of "wifi" handwaving.
I was under the impression it was because ISC's dhclient was not per-interface which made life much more complicated when you have machines with, say, Wifi and wired ethernet (ie typical laptop these days) > I'm a pretty lucky guy, because I get paid to maintain the ISC > DHCP package. "See the world, write open source software," they > said. Yes, it does sound nice :) > Usually, you just have to keep your users happy to stay relevant in > open source. Not true in this case, I went to bed the night before > thinking FreeBSD was under my wing, happily being served well, and > woke up the next day in a world where ISC had been kicked out of the > house without so much as a bye-or-leave. Ask brooks@ since he imported it I guess.. It seems to be a classic case of mis-communication :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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