Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:36:01 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Joel Hatton <joel@auscert.org.au> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 RC1 dhclient (was Re: 6.0 RC1 usbd.conf (and installation comments)) Message-ID: <20051031233601.GA13072@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200510312331.j9VNVbd0025784@app.auscert.org.au> References: <20051031193146.GB32660@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <200510312331.j9VNVbd0025784@app.auscert.org.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:31:37AM +1000, Joel Hatton wrote: > > Ah, that's they key. aliases don't work with dhclient at the moment for > > most interfaces because the interfaces generate bogus link events when > > aliases are modified. We hope to fix this, but it's going to take some > > time. > > Ok - thanks. I'm fortunate at the moment that I've stopped using the jail > I had on that particular machine. Even though this is a somewhat unusual > situation (ie dhcp + jail alias) I don't suppose there's any move to in > the mean time incorporate a 'DHCLIENT=' make option for ISC/OpenBSD > versions? ;) Such an option would be very difficult because the ISC and openbsd dhclients require vastly different support infrastructure. As I said, we do plan to fix this despite the fact that such a configuration is fundamentally perverse. :) It's just going to take some time. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDZqpdXY6L6fI4GtQRAvEeAJ9AfnhK70tbYHOIglVeywA2oGcyXwCffGz/ Lmc1Byfg8UrEhNUzK+ng7m4= =8luB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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