On Saturday 17 July 2004 09:28 pm, Nick Schmalenberger nschmalenberger-at-fastmail.fm |lugod| wrote: > list, > Like I said before, I got pump to work, and I also tried dhcpcd. The > documentation for pump and dhcpcd indicate that they are daemons, and I > don't know why. Shouldn't pump just run just at boottime or whenever > else the user wants? At specific times. So why should it be a daemon? I > can understand for the server, but why for the client? Supposedly dhcpcd > stands for dhcp client daemon, so I know I don't have that confused.
The DHCP client is a daemon because it must stay in touch with the DHCP server, so that the DHCP server knows not to re-assign the leased IP address to another system. Having the DHCP client as a daemon also allows the administrator to make changes to the network configuration without having to reboot all network clients. -- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: 3B30 C6BE B1C6 9526 7A90 34E7 11DF 44F3 7217 7BC7 On pgp.mit.edu, import with `gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 72177BC7` Also available at http://www.XXXXXXX/~ryan/ryan_at_mother_dot_com.asc _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
