More dhclient gayness

Mike Jakubik mikej at rogers.com
Tue Jul 26 00:29:36 GMT 2005


xl0: link state changed to UP
DHCPREQUEST on xl0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on xl0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from x.x.x.1
bound to x.x.x.195 -- renewal in 43200 seconds.
xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
        inet x.x.x.195 netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast x.x.x.255
        ether 00:01:03:d4:4c:07
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
Creating and/or trimming log files:.
Starting syslogd.
Additional routing options: IP gateway=YES.
Starting devd.
dhclient xl0: already running?
Mounting NFS file systems:.

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Why is dhclient being run again? Can someone tell me why this openbsd 
version was brought in anyways? The old one worked just fine, this seems 
like yet another reinvention of a wheel, and a broken one at that.



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