dhclient problem with xl0

Matthew N. Dodd winter at jurai.net
Sat Aug 9 06:08:38 PDT 2003


On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Martin Blapp wrote:
> Isn't there a way to see that the card doesn't support reporting
> media status ? If the card does report this, I could add code
> to dhclient and all would be fine.

Yes; check the media status word for IFM_AVALID.

(whitespace damaged)
%%%
--- dhclient.c  28 Jul 2003 13:25:04 -0000      1.27
+++ dhclient.c  9 Aug 2003 13:07:16 -0000
@@ -3221,13 +3221,11 @@
                        if (ifmr.ifm_status & IFM_ACTIVE)
                                return (1);
                }
+               return (0);
        }

-       return (0);
-#else /* ifdef __FreeBSD__ */
-
-       return (1);
 #endif /* Other OSs */
+       return (1);
 }

 #ifdef __FreeBSD__
%%%


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