New DHCP client in development..

[Michael Shigorin]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 02:23:59PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Well, I think it does pretty much answer it.  The problem is
> that there _is_ no one true way, and Linuxers really don't like
> trying to define a one true way (look at how well the Linux
> Standard Base is doing).

Indeed.  It's quite funny to read all the buz on managing events
when producing them on PHY state changes is one of the few places
where Linux is actually inferior to e.g. FreeBSD, and bitterly so
since it's not fixed easily.

Of course, we have to have three different ioctls implemented in
different netcard drivers (see ifplugd homepage for details)...

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