Re: Alternatives to ISC dhcp-client ?

["Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com>]

On Sat, May 7, 2022, at 8:14 PM, Jeremy Ardley wrote:
> On 8/5/22 10:47 am, Rick Thomas wrote:
>> ISC has ended development on the ISC DHCP client as of early 2022.
>>> This client implementation is no longer maintained and should not be
>>> used in production any longer.
>> Can anybody recommend a good replacement?
>>
>
> I presently use systemd-networkd which provides its own DHCP v4 and v6 
> clients, and servers if you want.
>
> In my network my dual homed router acts as a dhcp client to the ISP and 
> gets an IPv4 address and is delegated an IPv6 /56 range.
>
> You can just use systemd-networkd as an IPv4 dhcp client.
> Jeremy

Is systemd-networkd automatically installed by Debian?

I ask because my "testing" and "stable" systems all show isc-dhcp-client as installed and running.

Thanks!
Rick