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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


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