On Monday 21 July 2003 10:17, Joerg Mertin wrote: > 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 ... >
Personally I still prefer dhcpcd, as it is a daemon, and this gets around the crappy Windows DHCP/DNS servers foisted upon us at work. While the Mac, and Windows users have to keep renewing the leases, dhcpcd does it automatically as it is always running.
