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Date:      Mon, 10 Jul 2000 19:19:04 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com>
Cc:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DHCP problem with 4.0
Message-ID:  <20000710191904.A19106@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200007101158.HAA09866@pobox.rwwa.com>; from witr@rwwa.com on Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 07:58:19AM -0400
References:  <20000707173011.A3544@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <200007101158.HAA09866@pobox.rwwa.com>

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On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 07:58:19AM -0400, Robert Withrow wrote:
> 
> brooks@one-eyed-alien.net said:
> :-Don't set any other network related things in the config file unless
> :-you're DHCP server is misconfigured and doesn't tell you about them. 
> 
> If you use DHCP with PCMCIA cards, the hostname (and other stuff) doesn't get
> set until you get your address much later in the startup sequence.  Is there
> (or has anyone invented) a way to make pcmcia DHCP happen at the same
> time normal interface DHCP happens?  Or is there some other way of dealing
> with this that I've missed?

See the patches in my PR at:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=18583

This isn't an ideal solution, but it's much better then the current one.

-- Brooks

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