Re: DHCP support

[Michael Banck]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:51:53PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Michael Banck <mbanck@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> > As the DHCP script sets things to 0.0.0.0 anyway, I am a bit puzzled why
> > this has to be a user-visable option.
> 
> Because without this patch, such things are not possible.  Setting the
> address to 0.0.0.0 was not possible, but now it is.

Sure, but I was only going at the --dhcp option.  When I first saw it, I
thought it was a convenience option for users.  However, as I understand
it, you can set pfinet to 0.0.0.0 with your patch without using --dhcp,
and as this is hidden in some script, there is no use in calling it
--dhcp if you can call it -a 0.0.0.0 [...] just as well.  And I believe this
(perhaps from another angle) this is Roland's criticism as well.

Your patch is very useful of course, I just think we do not need an
explicit --dhcp function but rather should make -a 0.0.0.0 [...] work
equivalently (if this is not already the case) and use that in scripts.


Michael