pan profile support in freebsd

[Alexander Motin]

Iain Hibbert wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Alexander Motin wrote:
> 
>> One more minor fact. Unlike rfcomm_pppd I haven't found an option to run
>> btpand in foreground to track connection status.
> 
> what would you like to accomplish?

For example, to initiate reconnect on connection failure. Sure it can be 
done in many other ways, but running in foreground seems to be usual 
practice for many places, like ppp.

> I made some effort for it to not detach until the setup is complete, but
> it kind of needs to then in order for 'connection up' activities to
> commence (eg proceeding to run dhclient)..  at least on my machine I have
> logging turned up and do get some shutdown messages on the console when it
> detaches.

I think dhclient, for example, could be run via devd when interface 
comes up, alike to normal Ethernet. Not sure TAP supports devd not, but 
I think it could be fixed.

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Alexander Motin