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[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? 
>1)  dhcpcd doesn't crash my laptop, pump does about half the time.

Now that's a feature!

>2)  Hostname changes as sent from DHCP server on dhcpcd, not pump.
>    (at least with the default Redhat parameters on each)

This is for DNS update I presume?  Does anyone use the DHCP-DNS update hook?  I
haven't since Samba does that too and we had Samba before we installed DHCP.  

>3)  dhcpcd seems to work from DHCP servers where pump won't.

Hmmmmm.

>>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.
>Redhat seems to install both dhcpcd and pump most of the time, so if
>pump doesn't work it's as easy as removing pump to try dhcpcd.  Use which
>works for you, that's what I do.

Thats what I always do.

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