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Dhcpcd replacing dhclient for Debian Trixie or perhaps networkd?


My work on overhauling dhcpcd as the prime replacement for ISC's discontinued DHCP client is done. The package has achieved stability, both...

My work on overhauling dhcpcd as the prime replacement for ISC's discontinued DHCP client is done. The only remaining points are bug #1038882 to swap the Priorities of isc-dhcp-client and dhcpcd-base in the repository's override, and swaping ifupdown's search order to put dhcpcd first. This, in turn, re-opened the debate of what should be Debian's default network configuation framework (see the thread starting with this post).

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