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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