On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:13:38PM +0200, Daniel Ericsson wrote: > The list archives have a thread on this > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc-0104/msg00369.html> but no > solution afaik. That thread suggests there might be a problem with MACE > eth HW. But in my Beige G3 there's the BMAC i/f. > > Anyone know if a solution was discussed or if it got narrowed down ? well some discussion of pump on debian-boot tends to indicate its an RFC ignoring, unreliable peice of crap. but its also small.... i don't care for dhcp in general and don't use/need it so i don't know for sure how accurate that is. > looking at alternatives what is the difference between: > > dhcp-client - DHCP Client i think this is the one preferred by debian > dhcpcd - DHCP client for automatically configuring IPv4 networking i think this is the one that is full of security holes and many debian developers want removed from the archive. but the whole dhcp client issue is somewhat clouded so take the above with preferred quantity of salt. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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