Re: dhcp clients
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 23:39:02 -0500
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> I noticed that while the cdrom install pulls in dhcp-client-udeb and
> uses it for dhcp, the floppy net install does not have a dhcp client
> listed, so it falls back to using udhcp, from busybox-cvs-udeb.
>
> This does not seem like a good idea, it puts us in the position of
> supporting more than one dhcp client. I have plenty of space on the
> floppy for dhcp-client-udeb, and this would also let udhcp be turned
> off in busybox-cvs-udeb, possibly saving some space.
>
> The situation is even more confused for the netboot image, which uses:
> - dhcp-client-udeb (hppa, ia64, mipsel)
> - pump (all other arches)
>
> So we're suppporting *3* dhcp clients on i386 alone!
I think in the long term udhcpc is the best for our purposes and we
should be moving away from other clients.
dhcp-client has been around for a long time, its tried and tested, but i
wouldnt expect udhcpc to cause problems either.
Glenn
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