New DHCP For Linux?

[Alan Peery]

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