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Re: proposal: dhcpcd-base as standard DHCP client starting with Trixie



Hi,

El 19/06/23 a las 13:54, Martin-Éric Racine escribió:
> Greetings,
> 
> Seeing how the ISC DHCP suite has reached EOL upstream, now might be a
> good time to re-visit Debian's choice of standard DHCP client shipping
> with priority:important.
> 
> I hereby propose bin:dhcpcd-base:
> 
> 1) already supported by ifupdown.
> 2) dual stack (DHCPv4, Bonjour, RA, DHCPv6 with PD) with privilege separation.
> 3) writes both IPv4 and IPv6 name servers to /etc/resolv.conf
> 4) supports /etc/resolv.conf.head and /etc/resolv.conf.tail
> 5) a mere inet line in /etc/network/interfaces is sufficient to
> configure both stacks.
...

I agree that dhcpcd seems the best alternative to isc-dhcp-client for
the moment, and I'll make the relevant changes in ifupdown as soon as I
can. Josué, any thoughts?

Cheers,

 -- S

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