On 22-Mar-2002 Link wrote:
Well, between pump and dhclient, only one of them works. dhclient has never worked for me, and so i use pump. got any other recommendations for "real clients"? also, i think its not actually an issue on my machine, i think its cuz my campus network dhcp servers crash every other day or so. i'll keep ya updated if anyone cares. ;-P --link
Agreed. Sean could be right - my dhcp (using pump) seems to be somewhat misfunctioning recently, but like you I can't decide whether its the server or the client. I've found that I need to boot in Windows where my client's server always serves up the same dynamic IP, then when I boot in Linux I get the same one. When I boot directly in Linux, I don't get the right WINS info. But if I used dhcp-client or dhclient I didn't get even that far, so I'm not terribly interested in trying them again unless someone cares to explain why pump is a bad idea. (Sorry Sean, but saying "pump is pure crap", with or without a smiley face is insulting, patronizing, and potentially actionable). Either leave out the sermons, or tell us WHY it's crap.
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