Re: [ANNOUNCE] netplug, a daemon that handles network cablesgetting plugged in and out

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 19:11, David T Hollis wrote:

> Hmm, that seems to raise the question - why doesn't dhclient just handle 
> that?

Because it has as little knowledge of how the OS works as possible. 
It's intended to run on all kinds of Unix platforms, not just Linux.

> On a DHCP interface, it's running anyway.  if it paid attention 
> to link status, it would know when to re-request an IP.

There are no cross-platform standards for this kind of thing, so they'd
need modules for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, etc., etc.  I'm sure
they'd be happy to accept patches.

	<b

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