[KLUG Members] chartermi cable

Bruce Smith members@kalamazoolinux.org
Mon, 01 Oct 2001 13:18:25 -0400


> In any event, I've never used dhclient, and I hate pump (it's lacking in
> features and has a useless name), but I am a big fan of dhcpcd. 

Here here!!!  (or is it "hear hear"? :)

> Comes by
> default with Slackware (the distro everyone should be using), and allows
> you to specify your assigned hostname with the '-h' flag while allowing
> you to leave your "real" hostname set to anything you jolly well please.

I always remove pump from a Redhat install.  Redhat's startup script
looks for pump and if it doesn't find pump, it falls back to dhcpcd,
so no other action is needed other than to remove pump.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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