On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 01:38:13AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Just for your information. > > Debian Installer is switching to the udhcp client from busybox as the > default dhcp client. The switch has already been made in daily built D-I > images for most architectures (the kfreebsd ones still use dhcp3). > Primairy reason is of course the much smaller size of the client. > > As far as I'm concerned we should keep the dhcp3-client-udeb around, even > if all arches switch to udhcpc. Reason is that netcfg still supports the > dhcp3 client, and will automatically prefer it to udhcpc if installed. > So it can still be very useful, e.g. for troubleshooting. > > If/when you make the switch to version 4 (with the rename back to dhcp > probably) we'll make sure that netcfg supports that version as well. Thanks for the heads up. regards Andrew
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