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Date:      Sat, 9 Aug 2003 08:42:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dhclient problem with xl0
Message-ID:  <20030809084042.X87665@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030809143707.A49451@cvs.imp.ch>
References:  <20030809072050.GA7547@crodrigues.org> <20030809122637.D49451@cvs.imp.ch><20030809143707.A49451@cvs.imp.ch>

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On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Martin Blapp wrote:
> > dhclient is still relying on behavior from the kernel that isn't
> > guaranteed.
>
> I know. But I'd consider that as a kernel bug, not dhclient fault.
> Would it help the set the card into promisc. mode anyway, even
> if we don't have link ?

Except that you've added code to dhclient that makes poor assumptions
about the ifmedia status word.  Its optional; for hardware that you can
detect media status it can be used to display the status.  For other
hardware, we shouldn't have to "lie" about media status; if the hardware
doesn't support reporting media status then we shouldn't do anything with
the status word.

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