From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 17 06:19:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9575D37B401 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 06:19:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80B2743F3F for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 06:19:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-mobile@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19SGMu-0000E2-00 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:19:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19SGMs-0000Di-00 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:19:22 +0200 From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:19:22 -0400 Organization: WingNET Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <20030613.192941.78708305.imp@bsdimp.com> <3EED1634.30404@cs.unisa.edu.au> <20030616.225708.08322880.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030617071212.GA66426@ppe.happygiraffe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news Subject: Re: multiple DHCP interfaces X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:19:30 -0000 Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:57:08PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: >> In message: <3EED1634.30404@cs.unisa.edu.au> >> Benjamin Close writes: >> : Is there any likely hood this will change in the future? Not beingable >> : to do dhcp on more than one interface seems insane. >> : For example a laptop with a hardwired ethernet card and a wireless >> : card. >> >> I'd love to remove it. I don't recall the reasons it was added. It >> is completely insane when you have, say, a laptop with a wired network >> built in, which you want to run dhclient on, and you want to run a >> dhclient on a wireless interface you plug in... > > Just as a data point, this has bitten me in the past as well. The > annoying thing is that you don't even have to be using the builtin > network adaptor; just so long as it's running dhclient, you're screwed > when you put the wireless card in. You have to manually sort it all > out by running dhclient against both the old and the new interfaces... I take it that this is a subject we should address on -current? -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net