From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 10:39:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA20129 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:39:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles313.castles.com [208.214.167.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA20120; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:39:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA03875; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 10:35:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199902091835.KAA03875@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG cc: Dom Mitchell , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Feb 1999 00:44:44 PST." <19990209004444.D19070@relay.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 10:35:13 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > What impact will this have on the rc files? How will it affect > > rc.conf, seeing as it overrides several values therein? > > Most basic, you would have ``network_interfaces="lo0 fxp0"'' as usual, > but no "ifconfig_fxp0="inet ...." line. Actually, I'm not sure I'd want to be that locked in. I'd have interfaces listed explicitly assume they had config data, and then specify a 'DHCP' token to have all non-listed interfaces do the DHCP thing, eg: network_interfaces="lo0 dhcp" > > What happens if your lease expires and doesn't get renewed, or gets > > renewed with a different IP address? > > You will get "no route to host" type messages. Yup. That's just the way it is - I can't imagine what alternative the original poster thought they could have, steal an address? Ignore your least? Get real. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message