Hi Buchan, it's funny - in my 10 Years of working with Linux - I did not manage to get dhclient working reliably - it always screwed my DNS (/etc/resolve.conf file) as I have my own Name-Server running - it screwed that one too. Pump - IMHO - is simple - small and does what I wanted it to do. Nothing else.
dhclient might be better for automated installation tools - if they work. However - if you are an old networking guy who knows what he's doing - I have to admit that pump does whatever you need - and does not interfere with the rest. And in this case - a user had a problem related to the complexity of dhclient IMHO ... Just my 2 cents. Cheers Joerg On Monday 21 July 2003 11:11, Buchan Milne wrote: > Joerg Mertin wrote: > > Hi Ed, > > > > try it out this way: > > Check if pump is installed - if not - install it. > > Check it with: rpm -q pump > > If this command doesn't return a thing - issue: urpmi pump > > Make sure there is not another dhcp programm running: > > ps auxwww | grep dhcp > > If there is one - check which one that is, stop this program - and > > remove the > > > package. If you know where the binary is - a: rpm -qf /sbin/dhcpd > > b.e. will tell yo the package name, a rpm -e <package-name> will > > remove it. > > Please don't suggest to people to use pump over dhclient, unless you > have filed a bug on dhclient for whatever the reason is that you suggest > using pump over it. > > dhclient is much more capable (client updates in dns, returns more > "options" values from the dhcp server for example), and if there is > something wrong with the way it works, we need to know that, unless you > believe it is better for users to continue hacking workarounds like this > in the future. > > Regards, > Buchan -- A lie in time saves nine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home)| | in Neuchâtel/Schweiz : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alt1)| | Stardust's LiNUX System : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alt2)| | Web: http://www.solsys.org: Voice & Fax: +41(0)32 / 725 52 54 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PGP Fingerprint: AF0F FB75 997B 025F 4538 5AD6 9888 5D97 170B 8B7A