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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: svn commit: r197047 - head/share/man/man4
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 20:28:58 +0000 (UTC)

> Author: brooks
> Date: Wed Sep  9 20:28:58 2009
> New Revision: 197047
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/197047
> 
> Log:
>   Mention that a few ed(4) devices don't emit link state change notices
>   and a workaround for dhclient.

I thought that I'd made it so that we report the link as active always
for those devices that don't support reporting the link status in the
hardware.  Is this really necessary still?

Warner

>   Reviewed by:	 thierry
>   MFC after:	3 days
> 
> Modified:
>   head/share/man/man4/ed.4
> 
> Modified: head/share/man/man4/ed.4
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/share/man/man4/ed.4	Wed Sep  9 19:40:54 2009	(r197046)
> +++ head/share/man/man4/ed.4	Wed Sep  9 20:28:58 2009	(r197047)
> @@ -425,3 +425,21 @@ driver is slow by today's standards.
>  .Pp
>  PC Card attachment supports the D-Link DMF650TX LAN/Modem card's Ethernet
>  port only at this time.
> +.Pp
> +Some devices supported by
> +.Nm
> +do no generate the link state change events used by
> +.Xr devd 8
> +to start
> +.Xr dhclinet 8 .
> +If you have problems with
> +.Xr dhclient 8
> +not starting and the device is always attached to the network it may
> +be possible to work around this by changing
> +.Dq Li DHCP
> +to
> +.Dq Li SYNCDHCP
> +in the
> +.Va ifconfig_ed0
> +entry in
> +.Pa /etc/rc.conf .
>