Devd event from GEOM?
Andrea Campi
andrea+freebsd_current at webcom.it
Wed Jan 26 01:01:56 PST 2005
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 02:32:00PM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote:
> I know what zeroconf is. The original discussion was not (I thought)
> about setting up "zero configuration" pieces of the network. The
> discussion was about finding AP's. neighbor nodes in an IBSS network,
> setting up WPA and 802.1x, etc. For this zeroconf doesn't get you very far.
You're wrong, that's not what the original thread was about. I was responding
to Robert:
> Ah, but we do, because whatever daemon it is needs to provide unified
> management of routing in the presence of multiple DHCP and link locally
> configured network interfaces. I.e., when I'm switching between wireless
> and wired networks, Useful Things Should Happen, and this can't currently
> be properly managed by today's dhclient. Likewise, I want to always have
> link local addresses configured for every network interface, and not have
> things like dhclient step on them. This requires dhclient to become
> substantially more mature and/or grow a lot, or it requires a new daemon.
While he did mention wireless, the discussion you joined late was about
"every network interface".
Just to get records straight...
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