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Well, Network Manager for starters is a binary and not a shell script like the dhclient-script.
by Maken 12y ago
Well, Network Manager for starters is a binary and not a shell script like the dhclient-script.
- danielweber 12y agodhclient is a binary on Linux and OpenBSD. It calls shell scripts, because, like I said in the comment you replied to, sometimes sysadmins need very specific things to happen when the machine gets a DHCP lease.
- dfc 12y agoNetwork manager depends on "the dhclient-script." > A variety of other system services are used by NetworkManager > to provide network functionality wpasupplicant for wireless > connections and 8021x wired connections pppd for PPP and > mobile broadband connections DHCP clients for dynamic IP > addressing http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/README#n51 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tr...