Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 18:34:07 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Steve Feldman <feldman@twincreeks.net> Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, smkelly@zombie.org, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Networking Question Message-ID: <200112170234.fBH2Y7d04093@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:40:33 PST." <20011214164033.A13456@twincreeks.net>
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> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:40:33 -0800 > From: Steve Feldman <feldman@twincreeks.net> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > Ahh, this sounds like the beginning of something I'd like > to see: the ability to shut off DHCP when an interface goes > down and reenable it when it comes back up. > > That would let me move easily between a wired (on the built-in fxp) > and wireless (pc-card) interface without having to manually kill > and restart dhclient like I do now. > > That's probably the only Windows feature I miss on FreeBSD. :) If you use pccard_ether, it does kill dhclient. And, it starts it again when another card is inserted. It's far from ideal, but it works for me. I just need to pull the wireless card before suspending my laptop (or the other way around). R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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