dhclient started twice on recent 7-current?

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:33:00PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> When booting, dhclient is started just after "hostname".  However, once 
> devd starts, it tries to start dhclient again which fails with a message 
> saying dhclient is already running.
> 
> Here are the relevant sections from rc.conf:
> removable_interfaces="an0"
> ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP"
> ifconfig_an0="DHCP"
> hostname="mrspecial"
> devd_enable="YES"

That's more or less by design.  Dhclient needs to start when the link
comes up in order to work since it dies when the link goes down.  It
also needs to start at startup because too many applications (sendmail
being the classic culprit) depend having an IP address configured.

-- Brooks

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