On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 20:46 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > Hi, > > Since I've gotten fed up with the DHCP situation with NetworkManager, I > started looking at existing dhcp clients with the idea of incorporating > one into NetworkManager. This has the following benefits: Yeah, makes a lot of sense. > 2) We have to keep up with security issues. This is fairly easy if the > code is simple. One thing you can do here by the way is to do the DHCP in a separate process, and talk to it over D-BUS. This allows us to lock it down pretty tightly with SELinux. > I decided that dhcpcd would fit best, so I spent the past few days > refactoring it to not use global variables and to clean up some of the > code. I've now gotten it mostly into the shape where its suitable to be a > library that we and other projects can link in. I'll be getting it up to > speed, committing the code to CVS, Could we do another release before then? There have been some bugfixes I'd like to see out. Or maybe even think about a 0.3 branch, and integrating DHCP would be for 0.4.
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