Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:13:13 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if.c if.h route.h rtsock.c src/share/man/man4 route.4 src/sbin/route route.c Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020121101217.69509A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20020121103822.A16527@sunbay.com>
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On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:04:11PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > > Any chance this also could send out link state changes? I'd be very > > interested in modifying dhclient to watch for routing socket announcements > > regarding the link going up and down, offering the opportunity to start > > dhcp in a timely manner... > > > BSD always sent RTM_IFINFO for up/down events, and since net/if.c,v 1.83 > FreeBSD also sends these for MTU changes. Hmm. I always thought this was only for administrative up/down events, not link up/down events. However, if I'm wrong, it should be easy to make dhclient DTRT :-). Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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