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Re: which dhcp client should be used?



On 2004-06-27 23:51:32 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 13:59:55 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi
> <kk288@cornell.edu> wrote:
> > I am interested in setting up my machine as a dhcp client. Doing
> > apt-cache search for dhcp clients on unstable debian, I get
> > 
> > dhcp-client - DHCP Client
> > dhcp3-client - DHCP Client
> > dhcpcd - DHCP client for automatically configuring IPv4 networking
> 
> There's also `pump'. Sorry, I don't know the difference between these
> three/four offerings.

After having problems with dhcp3-client (which breaks the loopback
interface), I switched to pump.

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