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Subject: Re: r228700 can't dhclient em0
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On 12/23/2011 01:14, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> 
> On 23. Dec 2011, at 01:40 , Doug Barton wrote:
> 
>> On 12/21/2011 23:20, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:35:23PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
>>>
>>> D> So does that mean that if I upgrade to the latest HEAD from a system
>>> D> built before the ifconfig changes that when I reboot my network will
>>> D> come up?
>>>
>>> Yes, older infconfig will work in "head < r228571 || head > r228768".
>>
>> I just tried with r228122 and got the same result. dhclient errors out
>> with "can't find em0" although 'ifconfig em0' does produce results.
> 
> Which is due to getifaddrs() most likely; please go back and read up the other
> half of the thread;

I read the whole thread. It's my thread after all. :)  I was taking Gleb
at his word when he answered my question with "yes."

> I am working on this.

Excellent. ETA? Normally I wouldn't be worried about updating, but I
want to try the newly updated code to recognize music CDs. If it works I
would like to encourage re@ to include it in the new release since I
think it will save our users a lot of pain.


Doug

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