Subject: Re: DHCP update to 3.0.3
To: None <jakllsch@kollasch.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 08/08/2005 14:47:09
In message <200508081321.30553.jakllsch@kollasch.net>, "Jonathan A. Kollasch" w
rites:


>
>> I'm personally more interested in the server. Honestly, the client is
>> good enough for me, so I won't invest time in this.
>> It isn't hard to change the reachover build for the client to build
>> from other sources. So if someone is serious about maintaining this,
>> there are no technical obstacles.
>> (Watching recent activity in the OpenBSD tree, the code doesn't
>> seem that mature yet anyway.)
>
>Among other things it doesn't (IIRC) have a (documented) way to send RELEASE 
>requests, essential for NetReg http://www.netreg.org/
>

dhclient -r, according to the man page.  (Disclaimer: I haven't tried 
it.)

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb