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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