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From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
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--On Monday, August 04, 2003 11:08:21 -0400 "Matthew N. Dodd" 
<mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Martin Blapp wrote:
>> Yes, there have been some changes. The most important was the interface
>> polling addition, but that should not make any difference here.
>
> Read the code.
>
> dhclient.c:send_discover() bails out if interface_active() is false BEFORE
> iterating all the possible media settings.
>
> As I've explained in private email using the ifm_status word to determine
> if the interface is "up and running" is incorrect.
Martin/Matthew,
    If you want me to test some code, I'm more than willing.  Having this 
broken is
annoying.

LER




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