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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 2003 08:20:07 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
To:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Cc:        Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile network.subr src/etc/rc.d hostname netif network1 nisdomain
Message-ID:  <20030423081643.S95995@cvs.imp.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20030423081326.E95995@cvs.imp.ch>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0304222248060.59938-100000@root.org> <20030423081326.E95995@cvs.imp.ch>

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Hi,

> > One more request is to make dhclient immediately go into the background if
> > there is no link on an interface.  I have a small local patch that enables
> > this and it would be great to see this functionality in the tree.  It does
> > an ifconfig | grep status: on each interface in the loop if it is enabled
> > for dhcp.  If there is no link, it starts dhclient in the background
> > since you are guaranteed that it will time out eventually.  This fixes
> > booting my laptop while traveling.

Additional - we will have to remove calling dhclient for each card we use.
The proper way is to use omsshell(8) and let dhclient (which gets started
up a boot time as daemon) reconfigure it's interfaces.

I'm now working on implementing a unix socket interface for omsshell,
so the user root can do anything without any encrypted keys.

The next version of isdhcp will contain all these fixes. And I hope we
can import it before 5.1

Martin



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