Re: Retiring dhclient

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:57:48PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 09:58 -0600, David Young wrote:
> > This is one of those cases where the DHCP client should use a hook to
> > decide.  You definitely don't want to hard-code the policy.
> > 
> > (I like dhcpcd a lot, really, but sometimes it has hard-coded a policy
> > where there was already precedent for different people setting different
> > policies.)
> 
> Can you give examples of these hard coded policies?
> I'd to take the challenge of providing a dhcpcd.conf entry to make it
> work how you like, or patch dhcpcd to make it so :)

For example:

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 10:30:48PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> I don't know if you covered it, but currently dhcpcd by default requests
> an MTU from the DHCP server and if given and valid, sets it.

:-)

Dave

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