[RFC] Use noafif in dhcpif and sycndhcpif

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Thu Sep 22 01:19:44 UTC 2011


On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Xin LI <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> While developing FreeNAS we have hit a problem -- when
>> ifconfig_DEFAULT is set to "DHCP", all interfaces including pfsync0
>> and pflog0 would be probed by dhclient.
>>
>> It seems to be reasonable to check noafif in both dhcpif and
>> syncdhcpif, as did in ipv6_autoconfif based on same reasoning.
>
> The problem, as I've noted offline, is that something like the
> following should be done. I'm not fully convinced that this is the
> best way to solve the problem; I'm definitely open to additional
> suggestions..
>
> Thanks!
> -Garrett
>
> Index: etc/network.subr
> ===================================================================
> --- etc/network.subr   (revision 225558)
> +++ etc/network.subr   (working copy)
> @@ -1260,11 +1260,16 @@
>                _lo=
>                for _if in ${_autolist} ; do
>                        if autoif $_if; then
> -                               if [ "$_if" = "lo0" ]; then
> +                               case "$_if" in
> +                               lo0)
>                                        _lo="lo0 "
> -                               else
> +                                       ;;
> +                               ipfw[0-9]*|\
> +                               pflog[0-9]*|\
> +                               pfsync[0-9]*)

+                                       ;;
+                               *)
                                        _tmplist="${_tmplist} ${_if}"

> -                               fi
> +                                       ;;
> +                               esac
>                        fi
>                done
>                _tmplist="${_lo}${_tmplist# }"
>

I meant to use the above context :)...


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