Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 11:33:04 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ Message-ID: <199902091933.LAA04425@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Feb 1999 11:09:35 PST." <19990209110935.A29090@relay.nuxi.com>
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> > > Most basic, you would have ``network_interfaces="lo0 fxp0"'' as usual, > > > but no "ifconfig_fxp0="inet ...." line. > > > > then specify a 'DHCP' token to have all non-listed interfaces do the > > DHCP thing, eg: > > > > network_interfaces="lo0 dhcp" > > Hum... can you give a little more of the approach? I'm probably just not > seeing the clean way of doing this. The ISC dhclient can (IRC) take a list of interfaces not to muck with. Just pass it all the interface names on the list, minus the 'dhcp'. If you find 'dhcp' in $network_interfaces, start dhclient. > I've got a machine on the DHCP required network with two NICs. Currently > I'm only using one of them and thus don't have it listed in > ``network_interfaces''. So it just happily sits there. IMHO we > shouldn't try to dhcp configure it. It will just fill up logs as it > continues to try to get a lease which it can't. In a situation like that, you would just tune the dhcp client not to ask for a lease on that interface. You know you've done something silly; there's a mechanism to stop it breaking things. What more could you ask for? -- \\ 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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