The Internet Systems Consortium (underwriters of Bind, kernel.org et al) are proposing to do a ground-up rewrite of DHCP infrastructure for Bind10.
Over the life-time of Ubuntu various attempts have been made with dhclient/dhclient3/dhcpd to try get better integration between the DHCP clients and the user-visible network infrastructure such as Conman, Network-Manager and their applets. In Ubuntu we are one of the largest distributors of a near-stock dhclient, so we may wish to put some input into this to ensure the focus is useful. For example DHCP acquire on degraded wifi networks can frequently end up with exponential back-off timeouts and that's still I believe non-ideal. Currently the ISC have a questionnaire that people may wish to fill out individually, it's possible that on a system/platform level in Debian/Ubuntu/Canonical we may want to prepare a more concerted response: http://www.isc.org/announcement/dhcp-survey -Paul -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
