Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > I am interested in setting up my machine as a dhcp client. Doing > apt-cache search for dhcp clients on unstable debian, I get > > dhcp-client - DHCP Client > dhcp3-client - DHCP Client > dhcpcd - DHCP client for automatically configuring IPv4 networking
Plus pump. > I would like to know which is the preferred one? What are the > differences between these? Any documentation on these would be nice. My preference of the bunch is dhcp3-client. http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ > Apparently dhcp-client and dhcp3-client are not compatible with each > other. Because when installing dhcp3-client, apt-get wants to remove > dhcp-client. If you look you will see that dhcp-client is version 2 and dhcp3-client is version 3. So dhcp3-client replaces dhcp-client. It is a newer version of it. Version 2 has some serious bugs which are fixed by version 3. Use version 3. By comparison with version 2 the alternative 'pump' looks very good. :-) Bob
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