HEADSUP: OpenBSD dhclient incoming

[Vladimir Grebenschikov]

В вт, 14/06/2005 в 09:23 -0700, Brooks Davis пишет:
> 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.

I am claiming that first notification is triggered by ifconfig command
(interface already detected). I guess it should be triggered by real
module load/interface detection, but not by user's ifconfig.

> -- Brooks
> 
-- 
Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
vova at fbsd.ru