DHCP and multiple cards

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sat Mar 29 15:40:22 PST 2003


In message: <3E8114A2.9030004 at cs.unisa.edu.au>
            Benjamin Close <cisbjc at cs.unisa.edu.au> writes:
: dhclient -pf /var/run/dhclient.fxp0.pid fxp0  
: dhclient -pf /var/run/dhclient.wi0.pid wi0    
: 
: The second dhclient will fail claiming the port is in use.
: 
: How do people get around this. I'm against having to manually configure 
: settings as I move through too many networks.

IIRC, there was a change to what was allowed to be bound in the kernel
several months ago that is likely responsible for this behavior.  It
used to be possible, but I've noticed it fails now too.

Warner


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