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nDray

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 143

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dhclient over dhcpcd

Hello everyone.

Let me first say that I looked for this in the forum but I didn't quite get it. If this discussion is anywhere around here please feel free to delete this message without warning.

What I'm looking to know is if there is any science behind choosing dhcpcd over dhclient for the base system. I ask this because recently I ran into some problems with dhcpcd and a network I regularly use (eduroam at the University of Aveiro, Portugal). Though sometimes I still have the same problem (long time to acquire an address) I find that dhclient usually performs better at the task.

Both are available, no need to change things, but if someone could just tell me why, I'd be a happier person.

Thanks everyone, and keep up the good work.

TigTex

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2008-06-19

Posts: 301

Re: dhclient over dhcpcd

Hummm. I also use dhcpcd with eduroam, at "instituto superior tecnico", lisbon, portugal and it works OK. dhcp server is a little bit slow, but it get's the ip after 25-30 secs.

Witch is better?... no idea.. both work and both get the IP's... dhcpcd comes with arch linux, dhclient it's optional. So I use dhcpcd. Not a good reason, but at least you have a reply!

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nDray

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2007-01-21

Posts: 143

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Re: dhclient over dhcpcd

Hi there colleague!

I'm from Aveiro. There are quite a few Arch users here. It's really growing, I was the first or second from the University and it was back in 0.7.2, so...

Anyways, I have this problem in many locations with getting configurations with DHCP. This began a few weeks ago and I can't relate it to anything that happened with software. I hav friends with the same software and absolutely no problems and vice-versa.

I find dhclient better because it stores past leases and uses them even if the DHCP server doesn't reply, so ultimately it pings the server directly and manages to use the previous lease. Also dhcpcd tells the server when it is going off. Its better for the server, but worst for me. dhclient doesn't let the server know that I went offline so I can turn the machine back up and if I still have an active lease I can use it immediately.