Re: Which dhcp-version ???

["Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Am Dienstag 09 Oktober 2007 schrieb Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda:
> A Dimarts 09 Octubre 2007 16:23, Hans-J. Ullrich va escriure:
> > Dear maintainers,
> >
> > I wondered , which is the default version of dhclient is been installed
> > by the debian installation process. I saw several different versions nd
> > my last fresh installation is a long time ago (yes, Debian is running and
> > running and running...). :) Well, at a fresh installation I use tasksel,
> > which does not really show, what happens ( --task-desc does not work).
> >
> > Can you tell me, which is the "state-of-the-art"-version is used in
> > debian today? dhcpd ? dhcp-client ? dhcp3-client ?
>
> apt-get update;
> .......
> palomo@ris:~$ apt-cache policy dhcp
> dhcp:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: 2.0pl5-19.5
>   Version table:
>      2.0pl5dfsg1-20 0
>          -1 ftp://ris.upc.es testing/main Packages
>          -1 ftp://ris.upc.es sid/main Packages
>      2.0pl5-19.5 0
>         900 ftp://ris.upc.es etch/main Packages
> palomo@ris:~$ apt-cache policy dhcp-client
> dhcp-client:
>   Installed: 2.0pl5-19.5
>   Candidate: 2.0pl5-19.5
>   Version table:
>      2.0pl5dfsg1-20 0
>          -1 ftp://ris.upc.es testing/main Packages
>          -1 ftp://ris.upc.es sid/main Packages
>  *** 2.0pl5-19.5 0
>         900 ftp://ris.upc.es etch/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> palomo@ris:~$ apt-cache policy dhcp3-client
> dhcp3-client:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: 3.0.4-13
>   Version table:
>      3.0.6.dfsg-1 0
>          -1 ftp://ris.upc.es sid/main Packages
>      3.0.6-1 0
>          -1 ftp://ris.upc.es testing/main Packages
>      3.0.4-13 0
>         900 ftp://ris.upc.es etch/main Packages
>
>
> Is this what you wanted?
>
> Regards,
>
> Leo

Hi Leo !
This was a fast answer. :) 

Well, what I really wanted to know, which dhcp-version I should use at using 
1. debian/testing 
2. debian/sid

(these are both, I use). 

Which is the default ? I think, there are different behaviours at the 
versions. At the moment I use dhcp3-client, which seem to be the newest one. 
But is it also good for newbies ??? Are the older ones orphaned in the 
meantime ?

The documentation did not answer the questions I have.

regards

Hans