dhclient in 6.0

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Saturday 04 February 2006 11:25, David W. Hankins wrote:
> I thought that was why FreeBSD moved away from ISC DHCP to OpenBSD
> dhclient?
>
> Actually, I guess I never did understand that move.  Certainly, no
> one ever explained it to me without a great deal of "wifi" handwaving.

I was under the impression it was because ISC's dhclient was not per-interface 
which made life much more complicated when you have machines with, say, Wifi 
and wired ethernet (ie typical laptop these days)

> I'm a pretty lucky guy, because I get paid to maintain the ISC
> DHCP package.  "See the world, write open source software," they
> said.

Yes, it does sound nice :)

> Usually, you just have to keep your users happy to stay relevant in
> open source.  Not true in this case, I went to bed the night before
> thinking FreeBSD was under my wing, happily being served well, and
> woke up the next day in a world where ISC had been kicked out of the
> house without so much as a bye-or-leave.

Ask brooks@ since he imported it I guess..

It seems to be a classic case of mis-communication :(

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