dhclient with non present devices

[Brooks Davis]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 02:12:38PM +0100, Jochen Gensch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> on the way to find a solution for getting dhclient to fetch ips for my 
> wireless nic I found the option "-w". This option should cause dhclient 
> not to exit when the device isn't present at load. However this doesn't 
> work. Dhclient still says ath0: not found... is this a bug?

Starting and stopping dhclient on removable interfaces is taken care of
by devd which calls the /etc/pccard_ether script.  You should have
ifconfig_ath="DHCP" and removable_interfaces="ath0" in your
/etc/rc.conf for this to happen.

-- Brooks

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