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Date:      Sat, 9 Aug 2003 14:47:06 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: dhclient problem with xl0
Message-ID:  <20030809144556.E49451@cvs.imp.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20030809084042.X87665@sasami.jurai.net>
References:  <20030809072050.GA7547@crodrigues.org> <20030809122637.D49451@cvs.imp.ch><20030809143707.A49451@cvs.imp.ch> <20030809084042.X87665@sasami.jurai.net>

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Hi,

> Except that you've added code to dhclient that makes poor assumptions
> about the ifmedia status word.  Its optional; for hardware that you can
> detect media status it can be used to display the status.  For other
> hardware, we shouldn't have to "lie" about media status; if the hardware
> doesn't support reporting media status then we shouldn't do anything with
> the status word.

Isn't there a way to see that the card doesn't support reporting
media status ? If the card does report this, I could add code
to dhclient and all would be fine.

Martin



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