Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 09:30:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/12984: No dhclient support in /etc/rc* Message-ID: <199908051630.JAA87261@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR conf/12984; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Jasper O'Malley" <jooji@webnology.com>
To: card@csi.uvsq.fr
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: conf/12984: No dhclient support in /etc/rc*
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:28:50 -0500 (CDT)
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Remy Card wrote:
> 3.2-RELEASE contains dhclient but the startup scripts (/etc/rc*) do
> not include any support for it. Thus, it is not possible to use DHCP to
> set the IP address without modifying these scripts.
Sure it is. /etc/rc.network looks for the file /etc/start_if.${ifn} for
each interface ${ifn} listed in rc.conf, and runs it if present. If you
want to use dhclient to lease an address on fxp0, for instance, make a
file /etc/start_if.fxp0 with the following lines in it:
#!/bin/sh
/sbin/dhclient fxp0
The patch looks okay, too, though. There's something appealing about being
able to simply stick ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP" in rc.conf, and not have to muck
with a start_if script. I'd suggest calling the new rc.conf variable
something like dhcpc_program, instead of just dhcp_program, to avoid
confusion with a possible future DHCP server program variable.
Cheers,
Mick
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