devd/devctl

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sat Sep 13 14:37:06 PDT 2003


In message: <20030913142107.V85817 at 12-234-22-23.pyvrag.nggov.pbz>
            Doug Barton <DougB at freebsd.org> writes:
: That functionality is being ported back to the vendor, if it hasn't been
: already. If we want really cool whizbang features that are more specific
: to us, we _should_ be looking at stuff like devd. The trick is definig
: which problem space we're addressing at any given moment. :)

You can't do it in devd.  You must be able to either (a) tell a
running dhclient about arrival/departures of interfaces or (b) run
multiple dhclients.  Make dhclient do one or the other.  devd can't
help you here until one or the other of these work.

Warner


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