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.
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