From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 4 18:08:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B1C16A420 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 18:08:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk) Received: from mattsnetwork.co.uk (mattsnetwork.co.uk [82.152.140.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E998A43D45 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 18:08:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk) Received: from workstation2.local.mattsnetwork.co.uk (workstation2.local.mattsnetwork.co.uk [192.168.0.142]) (authenticated bits=0) by mattsnetwork.co.uk (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k14I82Di049162 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 18:08:02 GMT (envelope-from matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk) From: Matt Dawson To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 18:08:02 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060204120101.6821E16A424@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060204120101.6821E16A424@hub.freebsd.org> X-Face: Zrm9At!%e{M_#Po+[-\; RFQih#L0/\!^6f8JS_1Nz,8`(@bR%|T,c)3:o6my`.sy$Rt)'^)ec9cWp!MmeH^Gp|Afl)BkcH1GENCBqb&wZ$cdqN27uYfD=jU@1:vWXf|)LmuVKo?1wuS68KeDX&3,#wZP2$N1Ao!_'mZOws67 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602041808.03062.matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on central.local.mattsnetwork.co.uk X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88/1276/Sat Feb 4 15:29:35 2006 on central.local.mattsnetwork.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: dhclient in 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 18:08:11 -0000 On Saturday 04 February 2006 12:01, freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org wrot= e: > many aspects of the network interface configuration > =A0 =A0process were overhauled. Which, I suppose, explains the yo-yo effect of my two xe (4) PC Cards, amon= gst=20 others, and why my wi (4) card no longer behaves itself. Up-down-up-down-up-down... I keep expecting it to either lose weight or make a mess in the slot O= ne=20 is a Xircom RealPort, so it's not the "dongle", as is so often the case wit= h=20 the CE3s. It works only if I force it to 10BaseT, half duplex, even manuall= y=20 configured with ifconfig. It's not all bad. ath and ndis cards behave themselves, as do my 3Com 905Bs= =20 (if one discounts imp@'s PCI pointy hat of last week - there were many dead= =20 rottweilers in my test machine at that point). These are small prices to pay for 6.0's goodness. Without a doubt, 6.0 is t= he=20 best release I have used, bar none, and the WiFi features that wpaul@, sam@= =20 et. al. have worked so hard to give us are excellent. sos@ deserves a menti= on=20 for the vastly improved ATA controller support list that nobody seems to=20 notice, too. FWIW, I did think the switch to OpenBSD's dhclient was poorly= =20 thought out, since the ISC client did things like DDNS, which I needed. I=20 managed to work around the loss of these features, but it still feels like= =20 I've an arm missing when configuring interfaces... =2D-=20 Matt Dawson. matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk MTD15-RIPE OpenNIC M_D9 MD51-6BONE