On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 08:16:49PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > Now John, I consider myself fairly competent; however, with three dhcp > clients to choose from (an actual situation from many months ago) many > folks won't know which one is *best*, as defined by ``works on the > kernel as shipped''. How are end users, installing their first Debian > box, supposed to know that bozo-dhcpcd hasn't been supported for many > months (but is still in the distribution) but bozo-dhclient-clown is > known to work on the kernel shipped by Debian, is well-supported, and > runs easily.
I should point out that your example is bad.. dhcpcd is not well supported and is in fact broken in the Debian package in ways that I haven't had time and patience to track down yet - relating to its init file mostly - but it's the only client that works with my cable modem. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 * Knghtbrd crosses his toes <Knghtbrd> (if I crossed my fingers it would be hard to type)
