Le 2014-04-16 04:44, Lorenzo Colitti a écrit :
>     I'm sorry, but I have no sympathy for your protestations about
>     DHCPv4 clients in embedded applications.   If it's an RPi, you can
>     run a full-featured DHCPv4/DHCPv6 implementation that works, so
>     there's no excuse for running one that doesn't.
> 
> 
> Ted, I think you'll have to accept that Philip's assessment of how much
> work has to be done on his platform is accurate, since he's the one
> writing that code.

On his platform, sure. On all the platforms I know, it would be trivial.

> We've had this discussion many times on many different drafts, and every
> time the conclusions from the implementers (and of course, not from the
> standards writers) was that tying together the state machines from
> different protocol provisioning mechanisms was brittle and a lot of work.

They are already tied together on many platforms. NetworkManager,
systemd, Android, Mac, Windows, etc. /etc/rc.d/dhclient is dead. And
that's a good thing.

Simon
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