Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:01:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch> To: Dominic Mitchell <dom@happygiraffe.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: STEP 2, fixing dhclient behaviour with multiple interfaces Message-ID: <20030729140001.J25188@cvs.imp.ch> In-Reply-To: <20030729115106.GA45515@ppe.happygiraffe.net> References: <20030729094308.L41136@cvs.imp.ch> <20030729115106.GA45515@ppe.happygiraffe.net>
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Hi, > > can access dhclient (or dhcpd) on the local machine without authentification. > > You can get omshell working without auth over tcp/ip - I managed this > today when playing. But a unix domain socket would be nicer because the > dhclient server binds to INADDR_ANY by default. Cool. Do you have any pointers for me to try ? Little example etc ? > At present, dhclient gets given a list of interfaces at startup-time. > Would it be better to start it in "no-interfaces" mode (-n -w) and > dynamically add /all/ interfaces using omshell? Exactly. Starting dhclient as a daemon without any interfaces. And just use omshell to add/remove interfaces. > Another (loosely related) thing is that we should be able to use omshell > to tell dhclient to pause before going into suspend. This is hinted at > in the dhclient man page, but it would be good to get it into the > standard infrastructure. Yup, that makes sence. Martin
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