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On Wednesday, 22 November 2023 at 09:33, Martin Steigerwald <martin@???> wrote:


> Rob via Dng - 22.11.23, 01:46:57 CET:
>
> > Does the new network-manager include this functionality or does another
> > dhcp client need to be installed. I understand isc.org are
> > end-of-life'ing the client software.
>
>
> Network Manager contains a DHCP client since quite a while. I never tried
> it before, but thanks to the hint on the list on why apt would like to
> remove Network Manager with a full upgrade, I just removed isc-dhcp-client
> and still got working DHCP, even after a reboot.
>
> So seems Network Manager automatically switches to internal DHCP in that
> case.
>
> --
> Martin
>
Thanks. Will do a reboot in a couple of days and see what happens.
Rob