Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 19:06:43 -0500 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: Dick Davies <rasputnik@gmail.com> Cc: f-q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Syntax of dhclient.conf(5) Message-ID: <20060122000643.GA1003@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <3f1760601130150n586b0b2dr@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060113052959.GA15340@holestein.holy.cow> <3f1760601130150n586b0b2dr@mail.gmail.com>
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in message <3f1760601130150n586b0b2dr@mail.gmail.com>,
wrote Dick Davies thusly...
>
> There should be semicolons after each line.
>
> On 13/01/06, Parv <parv@pair.com> wrote:
> > I failed to find detailed syntax layout in dhclient.conf(5) man page,
> > via web search, or be able to deduce from files in
> > /misc/src/sbin/dhclient. I was looking for something like as given in
> > (i)pf.conf(5) man pages.
> >
> > Could somebody point me to a detailed document documenting the syntax?
> > Alternatively, please help me understand what am i missing from the
> > dhclient.conf listed below which results in following parsing error
> > messages ...
> >
> > /etc/dhclient.conf line 11: expecting identifier after option keyword.
> > {
> > ^
> > /etc/dhclient.conf line 18: expecting a statement.
> > }
> > ^
> > /etc/dhclient.conf line 32: semicolon expected.
> >
> > ^
> >
> > ... dhclient.conf ...
> >
> > 1
> > 2 # FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE's dhclient empties /etc/resolv.conf & default route is
> > 3 # not being assigned. Remedy this by having sane entries here in dhclient.conf.
> > 4
> > 5 request subnet-mask , routers , domain-name-servers;
> > 6 require routers , domain-name-servers;
> > 7
> > 8 interface "em0"
> > 9 {
> > 10 default
> > 11 {
> > 12 fixed-address 192.168.2.100
> > 13 , option subnet-mask 0xffffff00
> > 14 , option routers 192.168.2.1
> > 15 }
>
> (if you're setting all these yourself, why are you bothering to
> do dhcp on that interface?)
I was/am having problems wrt iwi0 interface getting a IP address and
default route. So, in this case, I was/am using em0 interface for
practice. Let me add that i do not have any problems in using em0 w/
DHCP w/o any /etc/dhclient.conf.
> There should be semicolons after each line in the braces,
I did try, still having same exact error message being produced.
> and the leading dots before option aren't something I recognize.
Seems like problem w/ your font; that "leading dot" is actually a
comma. In case you will be inclined to suggest to move comma from
being in front of a line to the end of the previous line, i have
already tried that too, still resulting in the same error message.
Also from dhclient.conf(5) man page ...
DESCRIPTION
...
The dhclient.conf file is a free-form ASCII text file. It is parsed
by the recursive-descent parser built into dhclient(8). The file
may contain extra tabs and newlines for formatting purposes.
...
OPTION MODIFIERS
...
default { [option declaration] [, ... option declaration] }
If for some set of options the client should use the value sup-
plied by the server, but needs to use some default value if no
value was supplied by the server, these values can be defined in
the default statement.
- Parv
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