Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 18:08:02 +0000 From: Matt Dawson <matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient in 6.0 Message-ID: <200602041808.03062.matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060204120101.6821E16A424@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20060204120101.6821E16A424@hub.freebsd.org>
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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 <bg> 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
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