Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 10:35:13 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ Message-ID: <199902091835.KAA03875@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Feb 1999 00:44:44 PST." <19990209004444.D19070@relay.nuxi.com>
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> > What impact will this have on the rc files? How will it affect > > rc.conf, seeing as it overrides several values therein? > > Most basic, you would have ``network_interfaces="lo0 fxp0"'' as usual, > but no "ifconfig_fxp0="inet ...." line. Actually, I'm not sure I'd want to be that locked in. I'd have interfaces listed explicitly assume they had config data, and then specify a 'DHCP' token to have all non-listed interfaces do the DHCP thing, eg: network_interfaces="lo0 dhcp" > > What happens if your lease expires and doesn't get renewed, or gets > > renewed with a different IP address? > > You will get "no route to host" type messages. Yup. That's just the way it is - I can't imagine what alternative the original poster thought they could have, steal an address? Ignore your least? Get real. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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