From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 14:29:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA17048 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:29:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from server.noc.demon.net (server.noc.demon.net [193.195.224.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA17040 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 14:29:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fanf@demon.net) Received: by server.noc.demon.net; id WAA13311; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:29:22 GMT Received: from fanf.noc.demon.net(195.11.55.83) by inside.noc.demon.net via smap (3.2) id xmab13304; Tue, 9 Feb 99 22:29:17 GMT Received: from fanf by fanf.noc.demon.net with local (Exim 1.73 #2) id 10ALee-0004BX-00; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:29:16 +0000 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Tony Finch Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ In-Reply-To: <199902091933.LAA04425@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <19990209110935.A29090@relay.nuxi.com> Message-Id: Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 22:29:16 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > >> I've got a machine on the DHCP required network with two NICs. Currently >> I'm only using one of them and thus don't have it listed in >> ``network_interfaces''. So it just happily sits there. IMHO we >> shouldn't try to dhcp configure it. It will just fill up logs as it >> continues to try to get a lease which it can't. > >In a situation like that, you would just tune the dhcp client not to >ask for a lease on that interface. You know you've done something >silly; there's a mechanism to stop it breaking things. What more could >you ask for? POLA. Currently, an interface that isn't mentioned isn't configured at all. Changing that isn't kind. Perhaps having a variable in rc.conf that lists the interfaces to be configured with DHCP would be better? (As opposed to the statically configured interfaces.) Tony. -- f.a.n.finch dot@dotat.at fanf@demon.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message