From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 20 01:42:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1296B16A41F for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 01:42:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh2.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4D6043D58 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 01:42:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [192.168.42.23] (andersonbox3.centtech.com [192.168.42.23]) by mh2.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j6K1gcUe012778; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:42:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <42DDAC0C.605@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:42:36 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050603 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Darren Pilgrim References: <001701c58cc7$0571c5d0$642a15ac@SMILEY> In-Reply-To: <001701c58cc7$0571c5d0$642a15ac@SMILEY> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with OpenBSD dhclient X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 01:42:42 -0000 Darren Pilgrim wrote: > From: Eric Anderson [mailto:anderson@centtech.com] > >>Darren Pilgrim wrote: >> >>>No. Multiple interfaces with addresses in the same subnet (or even >>>the same address) is a routing issue. Dhclient is not the correct >>>tool to solve routing issues. >> >>Well, it is a routing issue, but it is one that dhclient needs to be >>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. Ok, well, that was the edge case which (I believe) I mentioned could be optional as an rc.conf setting maybe. Anyway, I was merely attempting a rough draft proposal of scenarios that FreeBSD needs to handle, with some suggestions to handling them. Thanks for the input. Unfortunately, this thread will probably die a slow death into the depths of the archives.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------