two NICs, one dhclient

Dan Pelleg daniel at pelleg.org
Tue Mar 23 03:21:33 PST 2004


Dan Langille <dan at langille.org> writes:

> My IBM ThinkPad T22 is running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and has a built-in NIC (fxp0)
> and a PCMCIA wi0.
>
> I have 'ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP"' in /etc/rc.conf.  What I'd like to do is
> have dhclient run in wi0 if it is present and then not on fxp0.  But if no
> wi0, then run dhclient on fxp0.
>
> devd.conf was mentioned to me as one way to acheive this. Does anyone have
> a working configuration?
>
> Thanks

On -STABLE you can achieve this with the nicmond port. I don't know if it
works on -CURRENT. In fact I'd like to know if devd provides the same
functionality. If so, I'll know to gradually phase the port out.

-- 

  Dan Pelleg


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