[KLUG Members] chartermi cable

[Bruce Smith]

> >>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!

I have a very flaky PCMCIA NIC.  I can also crash my system
if I start paying around with manual commands like ifconfig.
It also doesn't work with the new kernel PCMCIA support, I 
had to compile the old pcmcia drivers.

I don't have these problems with other PCMCIA NIC's.  I only
keep this flaky one because it's really fast (when it works :) 
and it connects on a long TP cable I have that's over specs, 
where other PCMCIA NIC's won't.  And when using dhcpcd, the NIC 
is usually not a problem.

> >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.

All I know is the hostname (as displayed by the console getty's)
change to the name dhcpd dishes out when using dhcpcd, and it
doesn't change when I use pump.

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

Sorry I can't be more specific, but I don't remember which
servers I had problems with.

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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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