Re: DHCP client with minimal functionality and size

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:04:20 -0400
> Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> > For all the flaws of ISC dhclient the use of scripts for managing
> > configuration files after state changes, and the set of variables it
> > provides to them, are very well thought out.  Done properly --
> > dhclient does not do it properly! -- it should make a DHCP client
> > smaller, not larger, since all the work of writing ntp.conf etc. can
> > be deferred to the shell.
> Thanks; I was about to post the same thing.  There are a fair number of
> things I dislike about dhclient, but the scripts actually help the
> size, since I already have a shell, ifconfig, etc., lying around.

        Would you be happy if dhcpcd had options to disable various
        of its setting actions and would call call out to a script at
        those various points so you could have a similar setup to
        dhclient?

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