@Home in Bayare/fremont ?

Sean C. Rhea srhea@cs.berkeley.edu
Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:38:31 -0800


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On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 12:20:38AM -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote:
> On Thursday 06 December 2001 12:30 pm, M. Drew Streib wrote:
> > pump didn't work for me, but dhclient did.
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> On my last job we did quite an extensive set of testing with pump and=20
> dhclient, and pump fails a LOT of the time, in various different network=
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> situations. If memory serves correctly, pppoe, which is popular with some=
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> the ISPs is one that will fail on pump in a lot of situations.
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> I only use dhclient, FWIW. Debian won't let you have both installed, and =
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> remove the other one in the process of installing the new one. Be careful=
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> since you can be left without a working DHCP client if you don't have the=
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> package on your local drive or CD. Because of that I always use dhclient.

What package provides dhclient?  On the packages search engine I only find
pump, dhcpcd, dhcp-client, and udhcpc. =20

By the way, dhcpcd seems to work fine with AT&T.

Sean
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	 people hack away on a complicated piece of code and avoid
	    total anarchy has never managed a software project.=20
	       -- Andy Tanenbaum, referring to Linux in 1992

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