On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 07:28:07PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Your patch is very useful of course, I just think we do not need an > > explicit --dhcp function but rather should make -a 0.0.0.0 [...] work > > equivalently (if this is not already the case) and use that in scripts. > > The patch does more than just that. The most important thing is that > it sets up the routing table so the DHCP client works. That is sets > the address to 0.0.0.0 is just a minor detail. > > This way of setting up the routing table is really DHCP specific, > there is not really another use for this that I know of.
OK, I see. In that case having '--dhcp' appears sensible to me. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
