From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Aug 11 1:38: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mrelay.jrc.it (mrelay.jrc.it [139.191.1.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ACFD14F83 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 01:37:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick.hibma@jrc.it) Received: from elect8 (elect8.jrc.it [139.191.71.152]) by mrelay.jrc.it (LMC5692) with SMTP id KAA21502; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:34:57 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 10:34:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@elect8 Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: "Jasper O'Malley" Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/12984: No dhclient support in /etc/rc* In-Reply-To: <199908051630.JAA87261@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The patch looks okay, too, though. There's something appealing about being > able to simply stick ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP" in rc.conf, and not have to muck The patch emulates the pccard way of doing this. > with a start_if script. I'd suggest calling the new rc.conf variable > something like dhcpc_program, instead of just dhcp_program, to avoid > confusion with a possible future DHCP server program variable. Making rc.conf depend on the version or make of the program is a bad idea. Specifying it at all is a bad thing as we have a dhcp client in the base distribution, so that should be used. Nick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message