Re: which dhcp client should be used?

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kk288@cornell.edu>]

thanks all for the replies. Looks like dhcp-client is relatively easy to 
configure (compared to dhcp3-client) . I am able to get dhcp-client up 
and running. I will probably try pump during the weekend and get back to 
you.

thanks again
raju


Kamaraju Kusumanchi 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
>
> I would like to know which is the preferred one? What are the 
> differences between these? Any documentation on these would be nice.
>
> Apparently dhcp-client and dhcp3-client are not compatible with each 
> other. Because when installing dhcp3-client, apt-get wants to remove 
> dhcp-client.
>
> regards
> raju


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