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Date:      Mon, 19 May 2025 06:29:50 +0100
From:      Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@freebsd.org>
To:        Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>, Mitchell Horne <mhorne@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org" <dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>, "dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org" <dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: git: b61850c4e6f6 - main - bridge(4): default net.link.bridge.member_ifaddrs to false
Message-ID:  <972DBF16-1E5D-4679-B378-76B14AEFF4FD@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <aCrAd1RmefLIXJiT@ragweed.eden.le-fay.org>
References:  <202505150004.54F04FhR046897@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <d839f137-b43b-416b-968f-439301f0a5c6@freebsd.org> <E0215FA7-F317-48EE-954C-15B0FA0ED7F3@freebsd.org> <aCpBp5MhoiBCSA5y@nuc> <82C39393-F26D-4E7B-B62A-5CC9C85BAD1A@freebsd.org> <aCrAd1RmefLIXJiT@ragweed.eden.le-fay.org>

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On 19 May 2025, at 06:24, Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Jessica Clarke:
>> That would go some way to helping, but I really do not want “I want a
>> tap interface for a VM” and “I want devd+dhclient to manage DHCP for me
>> automatically” to be incompatible, which based on the thread here it
>> sounds like they are.
> 
> this is not supposed to be broken, or at least, i think we want to
> continue supporting this even if it requires configuration changes.
> 
> if i understand your use-case correctly, you are relying on devd to
> start dhclient on an interface when the link comes up, when this
> interface is also a member of a bridge, is that correct?
> 
> if so, are you able to modify your devd event script to run dhclient on
> the bridge instead?

This is just devd’s default rules, /etc/devd/dhclient.conf.

Jess




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