Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:51:43 +0100 From: Andrea Campi <andrea+freebsd_current@webcom.it> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: pete@altadena.net Subject: Re: Devd event from GEOM? Message-ID: <20050125205142.GA8930@webcom.it> In-Reply-To: <20050125175022.GA8667@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20050125.101021.41686898.imp@harmony.village.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1050125171149.3036J-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20050125175022.GA8667@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:50:22AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > be properly managed by today's dhclient. Likewise, I want to always have
> > link local addresses configured for every network interface, and not have
> > things like dhclient step on them. This requires dhclient to become
> > substantially more mature and/or grow a lot, or it requires a new daemon.
> > Having many daemons is just asking for them all to step on each other's
> > toes, adding and removing addresses and routes in ways that leaves me with
> > nothing useful to network with, requiring user intervention. If you've
> > ever used a FreeBSD box in this scenario, followed by a Mac OS X box,
> > you'll know what I mean. Neither is perfect, but the one with centralized
> > configuration management does a much better job :-).
>
> FWIW, Sam's got a port of openbsd's dhclient in perforce. It's
> apparently significantly less foobar then ours. Unfortunatly, dhclient
> isn't enough because we also need wpa_supplication for modern wireless
> networks (it also provides basic 802.1x support for wired interfaces in
> linux and we'll probably want that too.) I think we'll be able to
> simply add a wpa_supplicant_ifs="..." variable to start wpa_supplicant
> independent of dhclient, but I'm not 100% sure yet.
And than you want howl for Zeroconf/Rendezvous... If people agreed to have
it in the base system, some scripting would tie everything together
seamlessly to give the same level of functionality as Mac OS X or better.
Bye,
Andrea
--
...and that is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped.
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