taharka wrote:
The new DHCP client is being proposed by kernel developer Stefan
Rompf
and will (when completed) automatically recognize when a Linux user has
disconnected from a particular DHCP server and look for a new
connection.
nifd already does this.
This level of functionality also doesn't belong in the kernel. If it's
in the kernel, I can't change the behaviour. I may want to make it
behave like APIPA in Windows, or something more specific to my
environment...
Alan