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Re: Pump and Dhclient



On 12-Mar-2002 hanasaki wrote:
> I have both installed.
>       - is there a way to tell ifup/down which to use?
> dhclient seems to need entries for each interface, that will get a 
> lease, in /etc/dhclient.conf.  Pump is nice in that it only requireds on 
> place to specifiy that the interface will be dhcp
>       (/etc/network/interfaces)
> Is what are the pro's cons of using these differnt tools?

pump does not obey the RFC and has been known to not work on all networks. 
Debian is moving away from it.



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