Re: DHCP client with minimal functionality and size

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

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Roy Marples wrote:

> > > 2) It does not interact with WLAN keys in any way or form (and shouldn't
> > > either imo)
> >
> > It should only be able to deal with link changes.
>
> Hmmmm. I disagree here. Link managers, such as wpa_supplicant, should
> call a generic network script to say "link up/down" and then either
> configure static ip or do dhcp.
>
> Gentoo uses this approach very well. Although I am slightly biased as I
> wrote that part of Gentoo ;) This is going outside the scope of this
> discussion though.

        Just to clarify - so in this model unplugging and replugging in an
        ethernet cable would be expected to run a script which would kill
        and potentially restart dhcpdc?

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