Feedback: dhclient for Linux 

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

Oh, Debian calls it dhcp-client, which threw me off. It appears to me that the right fix is just to change that route command to: route add default dev $DEVICE netmask 0.0.0.0 which should work for any DHCP client that needs it, and should be harmless for any client that does it on its own. -- Dave

1. More: Hmmm, almost, but not quite by Adam Goode, 2000, Feb 24 (_ Argh by David Hinds, 2000, Feb 24

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