dhclient problem

Nathan Butcher n-butcher at fusiongol.com
Thu Feb 7 05:21:28 UTC 2008


>> All you have to do is issue "ifconfig rum0 up" to get your device UP,
>> and then try dhclient. It should work.
> 
> The standard scripts should be running "ifconfig xxx up" on any interface that
> has an ifconfig_xxx variable in rc.conf.  Has that been broken?
> 
> -- Brooks

My USB wireless dongle doesn't have any rc.conf config line, but it used
to be automatically UP without the config line at boot time at one point.

I remember doing an csup update on my box at one point and discovering
this change.



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