STEP 2, fixing dhclient behaviour with multiple interfaces

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030729173653.78063D-100000 at fledge.watson.org>
            Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org> writes:
: 
: On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
: 
: > > You could add kevents for interface arrival and departure, and
: > > add a kqueue to the dhcpd to catch the arrival/departure events,
: > > and then just act on them.
: > 
: > Instead of just adding the stuff to devd? 
: 
: Currently, devd is in the business of dealing with attachment and removal
: from the hardware management subsystem.

currently, that's true.

: Network subsystem events, such as
: "interface has arrived" are semantically different, but "close enough" in
: many cases.

I've been pondering making devd grok such events, as well as other
power events.  Eg, it will be a place that acpi could route acpi
events to replace apm.

: In the past, routing sockets have been the means by which
: topology-relevant changes are announced to the user processes.  More
: recently, kqueue has permitted monitoring of a plethora of event types.  I
: think there's a decent argument for a neteventd, perhaps integrated as a
: thread into devd, listening on network events rather than device
: attach/detach events.

I think that would be a good idea....  Don't know if there's a
'thread' or a virtual thread-like thing.

: The only real problem is that it would be very nice
: if the DHCP client code were available in a library so it could be linked
: into a network event manager. 

It would make things a lot easier.

Warner