Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 20:42:36 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with OpenBSD dhclient Message-ID: <42DDAC0C.605@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <001701c58cc7$0571c5d0$642a15ac@SMILEY> References: <001701c58cc7$0571c5d0$642a15ac@SMILEY>
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Darren Pilgrim wrote: > From: Eric Anderson [mailto:anderson@centtech.com] > >>Darren Pilgrim wrote: >> >>>No. Multiple interfaces with addresses in the same subnet (or even >>>the same address) is a routing issue. Dhclient is not the correct >>>tool to solve routing issues. >> >>Well, it is a routing issue, but it is one that dhclient needs to be >>able to gracefully deal with. It should do *something* obviously, so > > >>what is it you propose for it to do? > > > Nothing. If the underlying OS tells dhclient that the address isn't > valid for the interface in question, then dhclient should handle that > and probably do something graceful like try to get another IP address or > at least fail cleanly. It shouldn't be guessing at whether or not the > requested action is reasonable. Ok, well, that was the edge case which (I believe) I mentioned could be optional as an rc.conf setting maybe. Anyway, I was merely attempting a rough draft proposal of scenarios that FreeBSD needs to handle, with some suggestions to handling them. Thanks for the input. Unfortunately, this thread will probably die a slow death into the depths of the archives.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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