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Date:      Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:02:23 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Jochen Gensch <incmc@gmx.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dhclient with non present devices
Message-ID:  <20050228190223.GC438@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4221C746.8010204@gmx.de>
References:  <4221C746.8010204@gmx.de>

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On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 02:12:38PM +0100, Jochen Gensch wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> on the way to find a solution for getting dhclient to fetch ips for my=20
> wireless nic I found the option "-w". This option should cause dhclient=
=20
> not to exit when the device isn't present at load. However this doesn't=
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> work. Dhclient still says ath0: not found... is this a bug?

Starting and stopping dhclient on removable interfaces is taken care of
by devd which calls the /etc/pccard_ether script.  You should have
ifconfig_ath=3D"DHCP" and removable_interfaces=3D"ath0" in your
/etc/rc.conf for this to happen.

-- Brooks

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