That is probably an error in that documentation. “/sbin/dhclient” exists and is a standard part of opensuse networking.
On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 10:16:03 GMT, hcvv <hcvv@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org>
wrote:
>
>sweinst;2505811 Wrote:
>> I know little about the DHCP protocol but I’m sure that it’s possible
>> for the DHCP client to refuse a lease offer based on a server IP
>> address. When the client receives the lease offer it does get the server
>> address (field SIADDR of the server offer: ‘Dynamic Host Configuration
>> Protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia’
>> (http://tinyurl.com/jdaz9)).
>>
>> Now, if you look at a recent manpage of dhpcd, (for example: ‘Ubuntu
>> Manpage: dhcpcd.conf – dhcpcd configuration file’
>> (http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man5/dhcpcd.conf.5.html)),
>> you can see the options:
>>
>> blacklist address[/cidr] Ignores all packets from
>> address[/cidr].
>> whitelist address[/cidr] Only accept packets from
>> address[/cidr]. blacklist is ignored if whitelist is set.
>>
>> which I think is exactly what I’m looking for
>That indeed seems to be a different dhcpd implementation as on openSUSE
>the man page never even mentions a dhcpd.conf file.
>
>Does this btw explain why CentOS does use the “correct” one without you
>doing anything to tell it which one is the “correct” one?
Isn’t that what blacklist & whitelist does, tell the correct or wrong
ones?
?-)