From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 4 01:23:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DAA16A420 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 01:23:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF57843D48 for ; Sat, 4 Feb 2006 01:23:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k141NJ0c019005; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:23:19 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id k141NJSP019002; Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:23:19 -0800 Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 17:23:19 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Peter Jeremy Message-ID: <20060204012319.GC24962@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <52993.24.90.33.115.1138913403.squirrel@mail.el.net> <59391.24.90.33.115.1138965018.squirrel@mail.el.net> <1138964037.839.8.camel@localhost> <20060203194359.GB1030@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060203194359.GB1030@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: Phillip Neumann , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhclient in 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 01:23:20 -0000 --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 06:43:59AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Fri, 2006-Feb-03 10:53:57 +0000, Phillip Neumann wrote: > >Ill use this same topic to ask this.. :-) >=20 > It would be preferable to start a new thread to make it easier to > follow both. >=20 > >bfe0: no link .............. giving up >=20 > >why is it trying to obtain a ip adress on a inteface wich has no link? > >it should quit inmediatly... >=20 > Because the link may not come up immediately. I've noticed that it > can take a few seconds to detect a link on a wired interface and I > suspect it can be longer on wireless. >=20 > If you feel up to patching the code, you could try making the > timeout in sbin/dhclient/dhclient.c configurable, rather than fixed > at 10 seconds. I've got patches I need to commit that will eliminate the current manual start of dhclient at boot and only start it via devd. If all goes well I should be able to make that the default in 7.0 and make it optional in 6.x. -- Brooks --=20 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 --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD5AIGXY6L6fI4GtQRAiQeAKDgjcFDM5aTJz7Nakw9sWOz6ZM5GACdGtVq lWn3RfEGEPd69qW6VZso6xc= =lz3C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lCAWRPmW1mITcIfM--