Re: systemd/dhcp v. ntpd

[Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2022, Lee wrote:

> On 2/12/22, Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, Lee wrote:
> >
> > > Any idea what the chances are of getting an enhancement request for
> > > the dhcp client to add an
> > >  ignore option;
> > > that says not use the option given by the dhcp server?
> > isc-dhcp-client? zero.
> >
> > https://www.isc.org/dhcp/
> >
> > The client and relay portions of ISC DHCP are no longer maintained.
>
> *sigh*
> https://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/4.4.3b1/dhcp-4.4.3b1-RELNOTES
>  NOTE: The client and relay components are now End-Of-Life.
>  4.4.3 is the final release for those components.
>
> How does one figure out what the replacement dhcp client software is
> going to be?
I'll probably try dhcpcd5. I have vague memories of using it before,
don't recall why I changed (probably dhcpcd in those days)

> > It's on my todo list, along with ntp, to move to something else...
>
> I've seen references to chrony and ntpsec as replacements.

ntpsec is supposed to be an almost drop in replacement.