Bug#121896: O: pump -- pump is broken and should be removed from woody
Steve Dunham <dunham@cse.msu.edu> writes:
> Package: wnpp
>
> 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
>
> while(1);
>
> 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.)
Hi!
The only reason that I use pump is that it's possible to release a dhcp
adress with pump and last time I check dhcp client, it wasn't possible with
dhcp-client.
Sincerely
Mikael
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Mikael Andersson
mikan@debian.org
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