Re: dhc* in NetBSD 7.0

[Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:38:29 -0700, Jeff Rizzo wrote:

[our future dhcp client & server setup]

Thanks for bringing the issue up.

> 1) Remove ISC DHCP from base entirely;  this would mean NetBSD 7.0 
> would not ship with a DHCP server, and would have dhcpcd as the only 
> DHCP client in base.

I'll side with this option.

I still like dhclient better than dhcpcd - the former for 90% of my 
applocations "just works", while whenever I tried the latter, 
considerable amounts of reading were necessary, and most of the time I 
found that its ideosyncracies were not worth the pain. But the time 
until netbsd-7 may as well be used for smoothing the rougher corners.

As to dhcpd(8), like you I don't see a reason why it has to be in base, 
as opposed to pkgsrc. (What's next? postfix? ;)

hauke

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