[Dnsmasq-discuss] OT Client daemons dhclient VS dhcpcd

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Sun Jun 25 20:00:10 BST 2006


gypsy wrote:
> Are there any compelling reasons to prefer dhcpcd over dhclient?

IMHO all DHCP clients do DHCP equally well, and the interaction with the
rest of the system equally badly....

> 
> The system is Slackware 10.0 (waiting for 11.0 <grin>), which uses
> dhcpcd.
> 
> The reason I'm considering a switch is that I am unable to configure
> dhcpcd to "insist" on the IP _I_ want as opposed to the one my ISP wants
> to give me.

You can't do that: The client can give a hint about which address it
would like, but the protocol doesn't allow for it to insist: the server
offers an address and the client can accept it ot go without....


Cheers,

Simon.

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