Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:34:18 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc network.subr src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/share/man/man5 rc.conf.5 Message-ID: <20060413183418.GD5807@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060413104144.GC16295@submonkey.net> References: <200604130650.k3D6olUu032562@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060413104144.GC16295@submonkey.net>
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On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:41:44AM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:50:47AM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > brooks 2006-04-13 06:50:47 UTC
> >=20
> > FreeBSD src repository
> >=20
> > Modified files:
> > etc network.subr=20
> > etc/defaults rc.conf=20
> > share/man/man5 rc.conf.5=20
> > Log:
> > Commit the various network interface configutation updates I've been
> > working on.
> > 1) Make it possible to configure interfaces with certain characters=
in
> > their names that aren't valid in shell variables. Currently sup=
ported
> > characters are ".-/+". They are converted into '_' characters.
> > 2) Replace nearly all eval statements in network.subr with a new
> > function get_if_var which substitues an interface name (after the
> > translations above) for "IF" in a variable name.
> > 3) Fix list_net_interfaces() in the nodhcp case.
> > 4) Allow the administrator to specify if dhclient should be started
> > when /etc/rc.d/netif configures the interface or only by devd.
> > This can be set on both a per interface and system wide basis.
>=20
> > | @@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ nisdomainname=3D"NO" # Set to NIS domain=20
> > | dhclient_program=3D"/sbin/dhclient" # Path to dhcp client program.
> > | dhclient_flags=3D"" # Additional flags to pass to dhcp client.
> > | background_dhclient=3D"NO" # Start dhcp client in the background.
> > | +syncronous_dhclient=3D"YES" # Start dhclient directly on configured
> > | + # interfaces during startup.
>=20
> I had planned to be more tactful, but this made me smile:
>=20
> % dict syncronous
> 1 definition found
>=20
> From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
>=20
> syncronous
> =20
> <spelling> It's spelled "{synchronous}".
> =20
> (1996-12-13)
Darn it, I knew I should have gone with sync_dhclient. :)
-- Brooks
--=20
Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
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