Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 12:39:46 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient behaviour on link status changes Message-ID: <20120405023946.GA63311@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20120404211749.GA16579@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20120404211749.GA16579@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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--vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2012-Apr-05 07:17:49 +1000, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> wrote: >/etc/devd.conf includes a rule to start dhclient when an Ethernet or >802.11 interface reports "link up", with a comment: "No link down rule >exists because dhclient automatically exits when the link goes down." >IMHO, this is the desired behaviour, unfortunately it's not the way >dhclient actually behaves. In my experience, dhclient will exit when >the interface goes down but ignores link status changes. I found an easy way to correct the behaviour & submitted bin/166656 --=20 Peter Jeremy --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk99BfIACgkQ/opHv/APuIfaIgCglbGR/vx9zS1CS2lytVFFyJFY ilAAoMACrRtYALO7N06HDFmJHkV/AeUW =w4CZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --vkogqOf2sHV7VnPd--
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