Re: ITP: laptop-netconf -- a network detection and configuration program
Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 01:43:02PM -0400 wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:50:06AM +0100, Matt Kern wrote:
> > laptop-netconf is a useful little program inspired by divine. It detects
> > machines on the local network and configures the laptop appropriately.
>
> This isn't directly related, but I started using the ISC dhcp client
> (dhcp-client package), and noticed that it has features in this
> area. For example, if it doesn't get a response from the DHCP
> server, it will look at its history of recent leases that have not
> expired and ping the gateways of those leases. If it gets a
> response, it acts as if the lease for that gateway were renewed.
> Even better, it has a concept of "static leases", which you can
> configure directly, which basically specify network configurations
> to try when no DHCP server is found.
>
> This made me think two things:
>
> 1. Debian should move towards using the ISC dhcp client by default.
> It has much better features than pump. I assume there is some
> reason we are not recommending it now?
Probably mostly size, which may or may not be a valid argument. pump is 23k
compressed on the install disks, dhcp-client is somewhere around 40k minimum.
When the installer sets up dhcp it is nice to just leave it alone, locking us in
to whatever dhcp client is used on the installer. I could see about using
dhcp-client in boot-floppies, don't know if it makes sense.
David
>
> 2. Time would be best spent integrating all of the little network
> autoconfig tools into one tool. Probably, that tool should be
> the ISC dhcp client.
>
> Andrew
>
>
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