devd.conf

[Krzysztof Kowalik]

Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
> [...] 
> Your network card's driver has a broken if_media configuration.  What
> kind of nic is it?

Hm, I'm getting something almost funny on my X40 with em card.

When I unplug the cable, dhclient does not die on it's own. So I added
the LINK_DOWN event to the devd.conf, as the OP did. And it works quite
nice, indeed. Except that if the dhclient isn't running, I see no
LINK_UP events. If I start the dhclient by hand, I get:

Feb  1 18:49:54 pimpus kernel: em0: link state changed to UP

And I get LINK_DOWN/UP when dhclient is running (just did some test with
those events in devd.conf configured with action simply writing UP/DOWN
to the syslog).

em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 3.2.18> port
0x7000-0x703f mem 0xd0200000-0xd021ffff irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci2

em0 at pci2:1:0:   class=0x020000 card=0x055b1014 chip=0x10778086 rev=0x00
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
    device   = '82547EI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile)'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet

[FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #4: Wed Feb  1 19:51:07 CET 2006]
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