owl-users - Re: dhclient adjustment for "ifup" and "ifdown"

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Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 09:56:24 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: dhclient adjustment for "ifup" and "ifdown"

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:12:45PM +0100, Berend-Jan Wever wrote:
> If you're going to use dhclient in Owl, I recomment these adjustments to
> ifup and ifdown. Maybe some other scripts need adjustment too, I haven't
> checked.
> Development team: I posted them here because you might want to use them in
> upcomming releases of Owl.

OK, I've added them in the form of a patch in owl-startup package, but
just like I've already mentioned those scripts are to be re-written.

Until then and until we get a DHCP client that is reasonably safe to
use, there won't be "official" DHCP client support in Owl.

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