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Forum: PCMCIA Network Adapter Issues
Re: Question: route add unnecessary for dhclient? (Adam Goode)
Date: 2000, Feb 24
From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

I believe that the route command was necessary at one time, for at least some versions of dhcpcd and/or kernels, but I don't know if it is/was ever necessary for dhclient. Where do you get dhclient, anyway? I've never been able to find a dhclient package that wasn't for BSD. Maybe it doesn't matter, but network configuration scripts tend to be platform specific. -- Dave

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Feedback: dhclient for Linux Re: I'm not sure (David Hinds) Date: 2000, Feb 24 From: Adam Goode <goodea@rpi.edu>

Well, on Debian potato (or woody), dhclient is right there, as a package to install in dselect. It's interesting the way dhclient works in handling cross-platform issues. The binary itself does only platform independent things. Most of the platform specific implementation stuff is in /etc/dhclient-script, which is customized for your platform. In that file, route is definitely called (correctly, as far as I can tell). Debian also supports pump, but I'm not sure if it sets the default route correctly like dhclient seems to. Thanks for your quick reply, Adam Goode

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