Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:04:45 -0700 From: "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org> To: "'Eric Anderson'" <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Problems with OpenBSD dhclient Message-ID: <001701c58cc7$0571c5d0$642a15ac@SMILEY> In-Reply-To: <42DD11AF.6010006@centtech.com>
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From: Eric Anderson [mailto:anderson@centtech.com]=20 > Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > No. Multiple interfaces with addresses in the same subnet (or even=20 > > the same address) is a routing issue. Dhclient is not the correct=20 > > tool to solve routing issues. >=20 > Well, it is a routing issue, but it is one that dhclient needs to be=20 > able to gracefully deal with. It should do *something* obviously, so > what is it you propose for it to do? Nothing. If the underlying OS tells dhclient that the address isn't valid for the interface in question, then dhclient should handle that and probably do something graceful like try to get another IP address or at least fail cleanly. It shouldn't be guessing at whether or not the requested action is reasonable.
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