HEADSUP: OpenBSD dhclient incoming

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:01:45AM +0400, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> ? ??, 06/06/2005 ? 20:46 -0700, Brooks Davis ?????:
> > I'm about to start importing the OpenBSD dhclient and required
> > support in /etc.  I will unhook dhclient from the build while I work so
> > there shouldn't be much breakage for most people
> 
> I have strange behavior of new dhclient + devd:
> 
> just after boot (with ethernet plugged) I have no devd events about
> state of media and have interface down, but after first ifconfig (even
> without parameters, even executed by any user) "link state chages to UP"
> event appears and devd starts dhclient on interface.
> 
> I do not think that it is desired behavior.
> 
> my rc.conf, related to this: 
> 
> ifconfig_fxp0="dhcp"
> network_interfaces="lo0"
> devd_enable="YES"
> 
> Probably I need to comment network_interfaces line, but anyway, now it
> works strange.

I'm not sure what you are claiming here.  The dhclient should be being
started by /etc/rc.d/netif which is well before devd.  The link state
message had nothing to do with devd other than being emitted by the same
function that sends a notifaction to devd.

-- Brooks

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