On 2014-09-26 13:04, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > There are more DHCP clients than just ISC dhclient. OS X uses something > completely different, as far as I can tell; most likely it's based around > launchd and uses Mach ports and other OS X-specific IPC instead of relying on > the environment, and data not transmitted via those probably goes via a > property list. > > Notably, there is no dhclient executable anywhere on my 10.9 box. >
I saw a message yesterday on one of the social/news website (can't remember which one, hacker news or reddit most likely) that OS X does dhcp directly from the kernel and that no shell is involved at all. I wasn't able to find documentation to confirm though. -- Yves. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
