On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 08:44:40PM -0500, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > > I've never had trouble with dhcp-client on my powerpc -- what gives? maybe its because i have a bootp server instead of a dhcp server, but accoring to the fucking manual that should not matter. all the thing does CONSISTENTLY is segfault. i was talking to manty on irc yesterday who was telling me it dhcp-client was causing significant problems as well (1 not working, and 2 if i understood correctly crashing). personally im thinking we should go back to pump but then i don't give a damn either way. another problem with dhcp-client is it prevents manual network configuration since the maintainer apparently won't remove or alter the initscript that runs it on every boot. /etc/network/interfaces is how we do things since potato its time to move on. (bug filed over a year ago). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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