From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 17 15:47:49 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6654A37B4C5; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 15:47:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA11257; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 00:47:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Robert Watson Cc: Nick Hibma , Chris Dillon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc usbd.conf References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 18 Oct 2000 00:47:41 +0200 In-Reply-To: Robert Watson's message of "Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:42:54 -0400 (EDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Watson writes: > This has come up previously--right now, BPF will notify the user process > of an interface disappearing via ENODEV on any future operation on the > file descriptor. However, the version of DHCP we currently bundle does > not support this, and instead spins on the ENODEV rather than exiting. It will also spew out thousands of error messages about this. > David O'brien indicated that this improvement should come from the ISC > side and be imported, rather than bumping our dhclient off the vendor > branch. You could always cheat and import a patched version on the vendor branch. > I believe Ted Lemon indicated that such a change would go into > version 3 of their DHCP client. Yes, but when is it due, and are we willing to wait? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message