Bug 53018

Summary:	RFE: Add ISC DHCP client to ifup
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	kenneth_porter
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	rvokal
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/
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Description kenneth_porter 2001-09-01 21:28:58 UTC

ifup and ifdown now handle pump and dhcpcd, using whichever client is 
installed, giving preference to pump. It would be nice if the scripts 
also permitted the use of the new ISC reference client dhclient. An RPM 
for this client is available from ISC's DHCP webpage.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-09-02 04:46:49 UTC

As we don't currently ship dhclient, we wouldn't add support to the scripts for it.

Comment 2 kenneth_porter 2001-09-05 23:45:01 UTC

The latest DHCP RPM, dhcp-3.0rc12-2cra.src.rpm, will patch ifup and ifdown for dhclient support.

Note that Red Hat DOES ship an older ISC DHCP server, version 2. The newest server (version 3) ships with dhclient, sharing the same code base. The client and server are packaged as two subpackages of the common dhcp source RPM.