Thanks for the info on this, Ian. I was having continual problems with dhcpcd
at the beginning of every day. Removed it and installed dhclient and no
problems now.
Smitty
>
> There are three major players when it comes to DHCP clients:
>
> 1) dhclient
> 2) pump
> 3) dhcpcd
>
> From experience, I prefer dhclient. It always works, and has no problems
> with multiple interfaces. Painless, simple, I can't recommend it enough.
>
> Pump has a nasty tendency to get seriously confused when there is more than
> one network interface on a box. Once upon a time, I used pump. Now I know
> better. RedHat derived boxen tend to use it by default (why, I ask?)
>
> As for dhcpcd, I've had varying problems with it as well the few times I've
> attempted to use it. Whereas pump will generally get a lease regardless on
> a single-homed box, dhcpcd tends to be finicky about obtaining a lease at
> all. Because of these experiences, I don't recommend it., but many others
> seem to have no problems.
>
> Also, remember that every DHCP client has a daemon piece that listens for
> leases and requests renewals during the lease cycle to keep the existing
> lease. THERE MUST BE ONLY ONE DHCP DAEMON RUNNING AT A TIME. If you have
> more than one, you may see the symptoms you are experiencing (lack of
> renewal, no lease at all, etc). Make sure that you only have one "pump",
> "dhclient", or "dhcpcd" process running on your system at any given time.
>
> Hope this helps.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Fri Aug 01 2014 - 19:05:26 EDT