Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:40:29 -0500 From: mike ryan <mikeryan@post.harvard.edu> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ Message-ID: <19990209134029.A9756@medianstrip.net> In-Reply-To: <19990209004444.D19070@relay.nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 12:44:44AM -0800 References: <19990208142820.A9457@relay.nuxi.com> <E10A862-0000GY-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk> <19990209004444.D19070@relay.nuxi.com>
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on Feb 9, David O'Brien <obrien@NUXI.com> wrote: > > 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. > > Rather you would have a ``/etc/start_if.fxp0'' file with: > > /sbin/dhcpc fxp0 > sleep 10 this is one of the things ISC does better than WIDE, btw -- dhclient won't background itself until it has an ip address, so you don't have to guess how long it'll take to obtain a lease. no wasted time during boot if things are quick, no lost services if things are slow. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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