From owner-cvs-all Mon Jan 21 7:13:28 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC5D437B402; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 07:13:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id g0LFDED69534; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:13:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:13:13 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Ruslan Ermilov 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 In-Reply-To: <20020121103822.A16527@sunbay.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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