Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > I know of at least four DHCP clients and I avoid dhclient as much as > > possible. It would be a tremendous mistake to tie OpenVPN to any one > > DHCP client IMO. > > Only D is tied to dhclient. A, B, and C, work fine with any dhcp > client daemon. (Or A does anyway, B and C require configuration file > support for the interface. I assume this is a common property of > dhcp clients.)
Actually no, neither dhcpcd nor pump nor udhcpc uses one. > It would be nice not to force use of a particular client. I think it's neccessary. > Given that. Why not just use -up and --down to do what's > needed? Avoid changing the code and write documentation. Agree completely. This is how I've been using OpenVPN for years already. //Peter