svn commit: r190031 - head/etc/defaults

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 05:12:53PM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> * Dag-Erling Smorgrav (des at FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> 
> > Modified: head/etc/defaults/rc.conf
> > ==============================================================================
> > --- head/etc/defaults/rc.conf	Thu Mar 19 12:39:13 2009	(r190030)
> > +++ head/etc/defaults/rc.conf	Thu Mar 19 12:48:00 2009	(r190031)
> > @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ nisdomainname="NO"		# Set to NIS domain 
> >  dhclient_program="/sbin/dhclient"	# Path to dhcp client program.
> >  dhclient_flags=""		# Extra flags to pass to dhcp client.
> >  #dhclient_flags_fxp0=""		# Extra dhclient flags for fxp0 only
> > -background_dhclient="YES"	# Start dhcp client in the background.
> > +background_dhclient="NO"	# Start dhcp client in the background.
> >  #background_dhclient_fxp0="YES"	# Start dhcp client on fxp0 in the background.
> >  synchronous_dhclient="NO"	# Start dhclient directly on configured
> >  				# interfaces during startup.
> 
> Shouldn't synchronous_dhclient be ON by default then? The way it
> is, DHCP is not used at all, I ended up with unreachable box which
> didn't get any IP already.

Unless you have one of the few interfaces that does not generate
link status events, dhclient will be started by devd.  The only ones I
know of are a subset set of ed(4) devices, though I think imp may have
fixed those recently with a stub ifmedia interface.

-- Brooks

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