[KLUG Members] chartermi cable

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>>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.

So what is the advantage of dhcpcd over pump?  I think RH6.2 and previous used
dhcpcd, as it is what I used to use.  It would infrequently fail to establish an
interface (particularly if you were several hops away from the DHCP server) and
very frequently failed to report correctly whether or not it had successfully
registered the interface  (it would work and say if failed usually).  They
switched to pump and all my problems went away.  Needless to say I've been a
pump fan ever since.

None of the DHCP clients seem to support option-fetching/enquire which is a nice
feature of the M$ DHCP clients.

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