Bug#121896: O: pump -- pump is broken and should be removed from woody
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 06:26:00PM -0500, Steve Dunham wrote:
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> Package: wnpp
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> I'm orphaning pump.. It has issues on machines with two interfaces and
> machines with Full NAT enabled. On top of that, there is crap like
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> while(1);
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> in the source code. IMHO, it's not worth fixing, dhcp-client works
> fine. (It looks like the only safe way to send out the right packets
> is to build them manually from the IP layer up, and pump doesn't do
> that.)
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> I'd like to recommend that pump be removed from woody, and dhcp-client
> "Replaces" pump, if there is no objection.
Junk it - here it crashes all the time and I just use dhcp-client anyway. Heck, dhcpcd (back in potato) worked better!
- Adam
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