> From: Scott Smyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 11:54:12 -0800
>
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > > received. It recommend it for a good alternative. If you
> > > get RH dhcp SRPM, you just have to add it to the files
> > > section or create another package identifier for dhclient.
> >
> > Interesting. I've not tried dhclient though I've been using the ISC dhcpd
> > for ages
>
> I think it just came out in v2 along with the relay agent. I have
> not seen it fail though, and it has forgiving attributes like
> setting "static" leases to default to if it cannot find a dhcp
> server and initiating scripts based on the dhcp communication
> (request or response). We moved to it when we found other
> dhcp clients fail on different dhcp servers.
Over the weekend, I switched from pump to dhclient and all my problems went
away. :-)
Chris
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