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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Subject: Re: conf/13548: MFC use of DHCP as pseudo ifconfig option 
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The following reply was made to PR conf/13548; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: conf/13548: MFC use of DHCP as pseudo ifconfig option 
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 08:18:55 +0200

 On Thu, 02 Sep 1999 14:51:35 MST, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net wrote:
 
 > Here's a diff if my src/etc generated with:
 > cvs -q diff -u | uuencode ifconfig-dhcp.diff
 
 Small diff like this deserves to be sent without encoding. :-)
 
 Index: rc.network
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/etc/rc.network,v
 retrieving revision 1.39.2.10
 diff -u -r1.39.2.10 rc.network
 --- rc.network	1999/08/29 14:18:56	1.39.2.10
 +++ rc.network	1999/09/01 16:45:09
 @@ -63,7 +63,12 @@
  	    # Do the primary ifconfig if specified
  	    eval ifconfig_args=\$ifconfig_${ifn}
  	    if [ -n "${ifconfig_args}" ] ; then
 -		    ifconfig ${ifn} ${ifconfig_args}
 +		    # See if we are using DHCP
 +		    if [ X"${ifconfig_args}" = X"DHCP" ]; then
 +			     ${dhcp_program} ${dhcp_flags} ${ifn}
 +		    else
 +			     ifconfig ${ifn} ${ifconfig_args}
 +		    fi
  		    showstat=true
  	    fi
  	    # Check to see if aliases need to be added
 Index: defaults/rc.conf
 ===================================================================
 RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf,v
 retrieving revision 1.1.2.12
 diff -u -r1.1.2.12 rc.conf
 --- rc.conf	1999/08/29 14:19:07	1.1.2.12
 +++ rc.conf	1999/09/01 16:45:11
 @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
  ### Basic network options: ###
  hostname="myname.my.domain"	# Set this!
  nisdomainname="NO"		# Set to NIS domain if using NIS (or NO).
 +dhcp_program="/sbin/dhclient"	# Path to dhcp client program.
 +dhcp_flags=""			# Additional flags to pass to dhcp client.
  firewall_enable="NO"		# Set to YES to enable firewall functionality
  firewall_script="/etc/rc.firewall" # Which script to run to set up the firewall
  firewall_type="UNKNOWN"		# Firewall type (see /etc/rc.firewall)
 


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