dhcpcd-discuss

On Monday 27 July 2015 17:13:45 Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

> >> The situation with DHCPv4 is not as satisfactory.  It is not possible to
> >> force the clients to either pick a different default router or to renew
> >> their lease (FORCERENEW is not useful).
> > 
> > Why is FORCERENEW not useful?
> 
> Needs authentication.
> 
> > If you're thinking of authentication, there is
> > https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6704 which dhcpcd supports to make this
> > much easier.
> 
> Thanks, I'll have a look.

A dhcpcd user has also tried to get their DHCP server vendor to add 
authentication to FORCERENEW messages without success, so dhcpcd supports 
this.
http://roy.marples.name/archives/dhcpcd-discuss/2015/1066.html
http://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd/ci/377c3a751f687ec3?sbs=0

It does make like easier, but is insecure and RFC violating - but is now at 
least optional.

Roy