Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:58:12 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: brooks@FreeBSD.org Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, amdmi3@amdmi3.ru, des@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r190031 - head/etc/defaults Message-ID: <20090410.205812.1723217987.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20090410.123404.-1398308997.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20090409131253.GB7795@hades.panopticon> <20090409153805.GB83847@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <20090410.123404.-1398308997.imp@bsdimp.com>
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"M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
: In message: <20090409153805.GB83847@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: : Unless you have one of the few interfaces that does not generate
: : link status events, dhclient will be started by devd. The only ones I
: : know of are a subset set of ed(4) devices, though I think imp may have
: : fixed those recently with a stub ifmedia interface.
:
: I think ep(4) is the only "common" case left. For ed(4) we now do the
: right thing for the really old cards (those without a MII) as well as
: the merely old cards (those with a phy). For the really old cards, we
: generally default to "Link is up all the time" as our status,
: specifically to keep dhclient happy.
:
: Of course, the number of users of these cards is quite low these
: days... I've fixed a number of bugs that should have been bad enough
: for people to complain, but since nobody did, I'm guessing the install
: base is smaller than I'd thought...
ep(4) now works for UTP aka 10BaseT. At least for the 3c589-based
cards (the 3c574-based cards I haven't tested, but should be using the
MII that's there to manage this stuff, but aren't: another rainy day
project).
As a side effect, I dusted off my 3C1 documentation and thought I'd
give it one more try to get working, and I found the magic pixie dust
to sprinkle in... This makes FreeBSD the only open source OS to
support it, although now that the secret is out, I suspect others will
follow since it is really rather simple...
Warner
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