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Re: DHCP client with minimal functionality and size



On 4/10/08, Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%rek.tjls.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 03:22:55PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
>  >
>  > However, you can stop dhcpcd from say installing default routes,
>  > touching /etc/resolv.conf or doing any ntp changes through command line
>  > options.
>
>
> Doing any NTP changes?  Please, say more.
>
>  I don't want C programs mucking with my daemon configuration files.
>

How is this different from messing with resolv.conf?  The sun
server/client has an interesting set of configurations for handling
what to send/receive.  (see dhcp_inittab(4))

I guess it'd be nice to give an option for enabling/disabling
everything is rfc2132 with like a -e(nable) ntp,lpr,foo -d(isable)
dns,bar and just document the defaults.  It would also be nice if the
dhcp client could append instead of replace (or replace it's only its
own stuff (<option id="added_by_dhcp"> foo </option>)  but then I
guess it would need to know a way to parse and modify (not just
create) each type of config file.


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