dhclient in LFS
Bruce Dubbs
bruce.dubbs at gmail.com
Mon May 26 09:00:25 MDT 2008
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 use dhclient and find it quite easy to use. It gives nice feedback about what
is happening i.e. DHCPOFFER, etc. I don't know if dhcpcd does this or not.
Since I only use dhcp on my laptop and I am often at a new location, the
verbosity is very helpful when trouble shooting.
-- Bruce
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