fix for dhclient+aliases

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Wed Nov 2 20:46:14 PST 2005


On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:08:53PM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 November 2005 07:12 pm, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > I've got a proposed fix for dhclient interactions with IPv4
> > aliases.  It turns out that my speculation that it was driver
> > issues was wrong and that dhclient with reacting to the aliases
> > themselves.  I suspect there may be issues with some drivers, but
> > that's not the main problem.
> >
> > This patch adds a flag which causes dhclient to ignore address
> > changes that it didn't cause.  Does this seem like an acceptable
> > solution?  I'd probably add an rc.conf variable similar to
> > background_dhclient.
> >
> It works on my laptop's rl running CURRENT :).  If deemed acceptable, 
> would it be possible to get this into RELENG_6_0.

6.0-RELEASE has been tagged so no.

-- Brooks

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