bin/166656: [patch] dhclient(8) doesn't exit os link down

[Peter Jeremy]

The following reply was made to PR bin/166656; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com>
To: Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/166656: [patch] dhclient(8) doesn't exit os link down
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:19:13 +1000

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 Sorry for the delay in responding, I got side-tracked.
 
 On 2012-Jul-13 11:16:30 -0700, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:
 >dhclient on exit should also remove the IP address it has set.
 
 Yes, and the patch in the existing PR _should_ do that - it invokes
 the failure handler in the same way as the other dhclient failure
 modes.  Unfortunately, there seems to be a separate issue in dhclient
 so that it is not passing the IP address to the failure handler.
 
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 Peter Jeremy
 
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