Re: Retiring dhclient

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On Mar 3,  1:17pm, Christos Zoulas wrote:
} In article <B42FD035-8CAC-4743-AEF1-33B3FFA2E5C9%fugue.com@localhost>,
} Ted Lemon  <mellon%fugue.com@localhost> wrote:
} >On Nov 16, 2011, at 6:34 AM, Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost> 
wrote:
} >> Asking out of sheer ignorance: does either dhclient or dhcpcd support 
DHCPv6?
} >
} >The current ISC dhclient does, but I don't know if anyone's imported it. 
} 
} It cannot be imported cleanly because of the mess of libisc and friends.
} (BIND vs non BIND ifdefs). Whoever made that mess should clean it. This
} cannot be maintained sanely.

     Does this mess affect dhcpd and dhcrelay?  If so, then the
maintenance issues are there whether dhclient is kept or not.

}-- End of excerpt from Christos Zoulas