On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 10:30, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote:
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:22:27AM -0600, Bill Anderson wrote:
Why those packages gone? Routers/Firewalls should not (and generally *do not*) do wgets, participate in Nothing Is Secure(NIS), manipulate dos files, finger other machines, run infrared equipment, act as a DHCP *client*, automount remote NFS shares, do spell checking, authenticate against SMB for users, perform whois lookups, etc..
Nearly *every* residential dialup, DSL, and cable modem user acquires an address via DHCP, so a firewall router is most definitely a DHCP *client*.
Well around here it is the opposite. Around here they are told to use a static IP (it's always the same IP, makes support easier I suppose) and their cable/dsl box does the DHCP client side. So put dhclient as optional.