New DHCP client in development..

[Martin Pitt]

Hi John!

John [2006-02-25 19:56 +0800]:
> I would have thought writing a satisfactory replacement for dhcpcd and 
> dhclient an nunnecessarily difficult undertaking.
> 
> On OS X, Apple uses configd (I've just been reading up on it and 
> plugging/unplagging the cable) to detect configuration changes including 
>  hot-plugging network cables, and the OS X model works extremely well.
> 
> Linux technology is leaving me behind, but I thought that this is the 
> kind of problem hotplug should be handling. It seems to me that there's 
> little difference beteen plugging in USB devices such as cameras and USB 
> disks on the one hand, and network cables on the other. The difference 
> is even less when the device is a USB wireless "card."
> 
> Why isn't configuring hotplug properly the "one true Linux way?"

There's not 'one true way', but network-manager might just be what you
are looking for.

Martin

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