route problems in 5.1-RELEASE

Martin Blapp mb at imp.ch
Thu Sep 11 16:41:11 PDT 2003


Hi,

>Normally, if I want to swap from wi0 to fxp0, all I
>have to do is:
>
>killall dhclient
>ifconfig wi0 down
>ifconfig fxp0 up
>dhclient fxp0

Why don't you just update to 5.X, run mergemaster-

Then just remove the wi0 card and plug in a ethernet
cable to the internal NIC ? This works wonderful here.
No manual interaction needed anymore. Dhclient had a bunch
of fixes for this problem, the rc system had it too. All of
them are fixed.

Martin

Martin Blapp, <mb at imp.ch> <mbr at FreeBSD.org>
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