Problems with OpenBSD dhclient

[Eric Anderson]

Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> From: Eric Anderson [mailto:anderson at centtech.com] 
> 
>>Darren Pilgrim wrote:
>>
>>>No.  Multiple interfaces with addresses in the same subnet (or even 
>>>the same address) is a routing issue.  Dhclient is not the correct 
>>>tool to solve routing issues.
>>
>>Well, it is a routing issue, but it is one that dhclient needs to be 
>>able to gracefully deal with.   It should do *something* obviously, so
> 
> 
>>what is it you propose for it to do?
> 
> 
> Nothing.  If the underlying OS tells dhclient that the address isn't
> valid for the interface in question, then dhclient should handle that
> and probably do something graceful like try to get another IP address or
> at least fail cleanly.  It shouldn't be guessing at whether or not the
> requested action is reasonable.

Ok, well, that was the edge case which (I believe) I mentioned could be 
optional as an rc.conf setting maybe.

Anyway, I was merely attempting a rough draft proposal of scenarios that 
FreeBSD needs to handle, with some suggestions to handling them.

Thanks for the input.  Unfortunately, this thread will probably die a 
slow death into the depths of the archives..

Eric




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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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