Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:27:39 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: dan@langille.org Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two NICs, one dhclient Message-ID: <20040323.102739.95902247.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20040322182954.S90677@xeon.unixathome.org> References: <20040322182954.S90677@xeon.unixathome.org>
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Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> writes:
: My IBM ThinkPad T22 is running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and has a built-in NIC (fxp0)
: and a PCMCIA wi0.
:
: I have 'ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP"' in /etc/rc.conf. What I'd like to do is
: have dhclient run in wi0 if it is present and then not on fxp0. But if no
: wi0, then run dhclient on fxp0.
:
: devd.conf was mentioned to me as one way to acheive this. Does anyone have
: a working configuration?
You'd need a replacement script for the /etc/pccard_ether script that
the default devd.conf runs. You could do something like:
case $1 in
fxp0) maybe_dhclient fxp0;;
wi0) dhclient wi0;;
esac
maybe_dhclient()
{
if ifconfig wi0 > /dev/null 2&>1; then
exit
fi
dhclient $1
}
Warner
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