taharka wrote:
February 22, 2006
New DHCP For Linux?
By Sean Michael Kerner
A new DHCP client for Linux is set to take advantage of an expected new
feature in a future Linux kernel.
The new DHCP client is being proposed by kernel developer Stefan Rompf
and will (when completed) automatically recognize when a Linux user has
disconnected from a particular DHCP server and look for a new
connection.
OS X uses configd which handles hotplugging wires just fine. On Linux,
isn't this what HAL/udev are supposed to do? What's the great difference
between hotplugging USB devices and network cables? What about if the
USB device _is_ a network device?
Surely it's way easer to make udev & HAL do this than write yet enother
DHCP client - we already have pump, dhclient and dhcpcp that I know of.
But then, what do I know?
