svn commit: r197047 - head/share/man/man4

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20090910204249.GB55545 at lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
            Brooks Davis <brooks at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:33:27PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
: > From: Brooks Davis <brooks at FreeBSD.org>
: > Subject: svn commit: r197047 - head/share/man/man4
: > Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 20:28:58 +0000 (UTC)
: > 
: > > Author: brooks
: > > Date: Wed Sep  9 20:28:58 2009
: > > New Revision: 197047
: > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/197047
: > > 
: > > Log:
: > >   Mention that a few ed(4) devices don't emit link state change notices
: > >   and a workaround for dhclient.
: > 
: > I thought that I'd made it so that we report the link as active always
: > for those devices that don't support reporting the link status in the
: > hardware.  Is this really necessary still?
: 
: That fixes the case where dhclient never sees a link, but apparently
: doesn't deal with the fact that in 8.0 dhclient never starts without
: a link-up event.  It may be that we need to generate a single link-up
: event at startup to provide an equivalent workaround.

I thought the way that I did it does this...  How is it not doing that?

Warner


: > Warner
: > 
: > >   Reviewed by:	 thierry
: > >   MFC after:	3 days
: > > 
: > > Modified:
: > >   head/share/man/man4/ed.4
: > > 
: > > Modified: head/share/man/man4/ed.4
: > > ==============================================================================
: > > --- head/share/man/man4/ed.4	Wed Sep  9 19:40:54 2009	(r197046)
: > > +++ head/share/man/man4/ed.4	Wed Sep  9 20:28:58 2009	(r197047)
: > > @@ -425,3 +425,21 @@ driver is slow by today's standards.
: > >  .Pp
: > >  PC Card attachment supports the D-Link DMF650TX LAN/Modem card's Ethernet
: > >  port only at this time.
: > > +.Pp
: > > +Some devices supported by
: > > +.Nm
: > > +do no generate the link state change events used by
: > > +.Xr devd 8
: > > +to start
: > > +.Xr dhclinet 8 .
: > > +If you have problems with
: > > +.Xr dhclient 8
: > > +not starting and the device is always attached to the network it may
: > > +be possible to work around this by changing
: > > +.Dq Li DHCP
: > > +to
: > > +.Dq Li SYNCDHCP
: > > +in the
: > > +.Va ifconfig_ed0
: > > +entry in
: > > +.Pa /etc/rc.conf .
: > > 
: >