dhclient starts on all interfaces referred to in dhclient.conf regardless of command-line parameters

Ted Lemon mellon at fugue.com
Tue Jun 14 18:11:36 UTC 2005


On Jun 14, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Ted Lemon wrote:
> It's a bug.   That code is complicated by the fact that it has to
> work for both the client and server - if you're doing a client-only
> package, you might want to just hack it to death so that it makes
> more sense from the perspective of a DHCP client.

Er, I should say that Dave is authoritative on what is a bug and what  
is a feature, not me, but I think of it as a bug, and I think of that  
code as painfully ugly.   Sometimes it's better to write two nearly  
identical functions than to try to cram too much functionality into one.




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