dhcpcd-5.1.2 released

Published: Saturday, October 17, 2009

dhcpcd-5.1.2 has been released with the following changes:

ClientID is now reported when interface starts
-w,--wait forces dhcpcd to wait until an interface gets a lease or times out
50-ypbind hook added for BSD style NIS
Ensure DHCP socket is open when sending a DECLINE
Uses new hwaddr if existing interface is downed and then changed.
No longer works on firewire interfaces by default.

dhcpcd-5.1.2 has a new behaviour change- when starting up and at least 1 interface has a carrier then it tries to get a lease or times out. It still daemonises regardless. This, along with the -b and -w flags allows total control over the desired behaviour of dhcpcd.