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[epg@progeny.com: Bug#154142: dhcp-client conflicts]



----- Forwarded message from Eric Gillespie <epg@progeny.com> -----

From: Eric Gillespie <epg@progeny.com>
To: Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu>, 154142@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#154142: dhcp-client conflicts 
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:05:09 -0500
Message-Id: <20020725150728.1A075636AF@morimoto.progeny.com>
User-Agent: nmh/1.0.4+dev (i386-unknown-netbsdelf1.5ZA)

Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.cmu.edu> writes:

> Suppose that no common interface is provided: if etherconf
> doesn't know how to invoke udhcpc, then having udhcpc provide
> dhcp-client will break etherconf's DHCP support.

Etherconf never invokes anything other than ifup and ifdown.  It's ifup
that has the smarts.  I know it already handles dhcp-client and pump;
i think (but may be wrong) that Branden has seen it work with udhcpc.

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