On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not sure where to report this.  net-misc/udhcp got masked recently with
> following notice:
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>  - net-misc/udhcp-0.9.9_pre20041216-r4 (masked by: package.mask)
>  /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
>  # Diego Pettenò <[email protected]> (23 Dec 2008)
>  # Mask these for removal, busybox provides those already, and are
>  # unmaintained. As requested by solar.
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> This should NOT happen until Bug 205286 is resolved.  The current Busybox in
> portage cannot be used as a replacement for udhcp, and dhcpcd is not
> reliable for many routers (reports broken MAC address), leaving us with no
> DHCP client on Gentoo.

use the ISC client or pump?

-Alec

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