HEADSUP: OpenBSD dhclient incoming

Matthew Emmerton matt at gabby.gsicomp.on.ca
Wed Jun 15 00:50:53 GMT 2005


On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Brooks Davis wrote:

> 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.

Shouldn't you have network_interfaces="lo0 fxp0" in order for the rc 
scripts to run the appropriate ifconfig or dhclient command for each 
interface?

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Matt Emmerton


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