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Date:      Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:08:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
Cc:        Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Subject:   Re: dhclient/dhclient.conf change in -CURRENT?
Message-ID:  <20030804110501.B99550@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030804163850.B31668@cvs.imp.ch>
References:  <20030804163850.B31668@cvs.imp.ch>

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On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Martin Blapp wrote:
> Yes, there have been some changes. The most important was the interface
> polling addition, but that should not make any difference here.

Read the code.

dhclient.c:send_discover() bails out if interface_active() is false BEFORE
iterating all the possible media settings.

As I've explained in private email using the ifm_status word to determine
if the interface is "up and running" is incorrect.

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