confusion of installation process

[Klaus Steden]

I could have sworn Ray Van Dolson said this Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:59:13PM -0800 ...
> I assume you are referring to nicdelay and linksleep?  Are there any others?
> I've been trying to get this to work on a RHEL4 U4 system on a switch with
> Spanning Tree enabled.  Even with long delays I am unable to get pump to get
> an IP address.  I don't understand how, when the system is installed, ISC's
> dhcp client is able to get an IP no problem (after a delay of course).
> 
I've come to the conclusion that 'pump' sucks, and should be replaced with the
ISC's dhcp client, if possible ... or made more robust.

Klaus