dhclient.conf for ath wireless

[Erik Nørgaard]

Rob B wrote:
> At 06:18 PM 5/07/2005, Erik Nørgaard wrote:
> 
>> in dhclient.conf. But on boot, dhclient enters into an infinite loop 
>> bringing up and down the interface, until I break it. I have to 
>> manually run "ifconfig ath0 ssid MYAP mode 11g" and then start 
>> dhclient manually to force it to associate correctly with MYAP.
> 
> Have you tried putting the appropriate ifconfig command line into 
> /etc/start_if.ath0.  That works for me.

Thanks, that was the keyword I needed. I searched google and at it 
appears that in -current the start_if script may be replaced by setting 
the options in the rc.conf:

   ifconfig_ath0="ssid MYAP mode 11g DHCP"

It doesn't seem to be appropriate if you hook up to various networks, 
such as at home, Starbucks etc. would be neat to have the startup script 
to run through the preconfigured networks and pick the first one that works.

Erik
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