From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 20 14:41:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC4A937B401; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 14:41:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.imp.ch (mail.imp.ch [157.161.1.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C7943FDF; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 14:41:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mb@imp.ch) Received: from cvs.imp.ch (cvs.imp.ch [157.161.4.9]) by mail.imp.ch (8.12.6p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h3KLfaVh085891; Sun, 20 Apr 2003 23:41:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Martin.Blapp@imp.ch) Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 23:41:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Blapp To: Doug Barton In-Reply-To: <20030420142318.J631@znfgre.tberna.bet> Message-ID: <20030420233651.S95995@cvs.imp.ch> References: <20030418132152.X6156@cvs.imp.ch> <20030420142318.J631@znfgre.tberna.bet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: imp@imp.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] dhclient active interface detection patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 21:41:46 -0000 Hi, > I think this is an interesting idea, but I wonder if you've discussed this > with the isc-dhcp folks? In my experience with dhcp, there are a lot of I've sent it to the isc dhcpclient mailing list. > My other question is, have you tested this with a wireless device? No. If you have one, can you do some tests for me ? But for some obvious reasons, it really makes no sense to send requests on a device which has no active link. I was also not able to test it on my laptop with cardbus devices, since my laptop still freezes if I remove my card: ep0: <3Com Megahertz 574B> at port 0x100-0x11f irq 11 function 0 config 1 on pccard1 ep0: Ethernet address 00:50:da:e4 Martin