On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 11:01 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 09:49 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > We all agreed at the OLS Wireless Summit that the up/down behavior of > > dhclient was just f**king stupid and should be patched out. Upstream > > doesn't seem to be very responsive. > > Sorry for going offtopic, but somebody picked up dhcpcd, and it's in a > pretty good shape now, preparing for 4.0 release. It supports dhclient > scripts, works with NetworkManager, and doesn't bring the interface > down. It even have a git repository, with the latest commit 79 made > minutes ago. Yeah, I'm aware of that. But at the same time, there's a lot of procedure, knowledge, integration, and custom scripts built up around dhclient that isn't going to change overnight. Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
