On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 19:11, David T Hollis wrote:
> Hmm, that seems to raise the question - why doesn't dhclient just handle
> that?
Because it has as little knowledge of how the OS works as possible.
It's intended to run on all kinds of Unix platforms, not just Linux.
> On a DHCP interface, it's running anyway. if it paid attention
> to link status, it would know when to re-request an IP.
There are no cross-platform standards for this kind of thing, so they'd
need modules for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, etc., etc. I'm sure
they'd be happy to accept patches.
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