dhclient in LFS

[Petr Ovtchenkov]

On Monday 26 May 2008 22:37:33 Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 07:19:49AM -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote:
> > 
> > > Why dhclient over dhcpcd?  I don't really care much, but my argument is 
> > >   
> > Not real reason why I mentioned one over the other. dhclient is easier 
> > to type than dhcpcd but that's a pretty weak argument. :)
> > 
> > Would there be a technical reason that anybody knows of why we'd want to 
> > pick one over the other?
> 
>  I prefer dhclient because of its hooks.  Not that I make a lot of
> use of them (I just copy a skeletal /etc/hosts on my desktop /
> laptop and then add $new_ip_address in the exit hook, so that I can
> easily see my current address if I need to).

As dhclient as dhcpcd has similar hooks: "cat /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.info",
/etc/dhcpcd.sh vs /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks; both has similar problem: I can't
turn off setting of default routing (and both declare, that I can do it ;)).

dhclient (>= 4.0.0) has support of IPv6, but dhcpcd simpler and lighter
(if you need only DHCP client). [on just builded system I shifted from
dhclient to dhcpcd: edit dhclient-script in /sbin not good idea, IMO].

dhclient really come from BSD, and it portable, while dhcpcd is Linux-specific
(and faster on Linuxes).

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  - ptr