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Date:      Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:53:07 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Mateusz =?utf-8?q?J=C4=99drasik?= <imachine@toya.net.pl>
Subject:   Re: dhclient sucks
Message-ID:  <200507261853.07513.peter@wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <42E6D11C.9020905@rogers.com>
References:  <42E583F9.3070703@rogers.com> <200507261104.35752.peter@wemm.org> <42E6D11C.9020905@rogers.com>

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On Tuesday 26 July 2005 05:11 pm, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> Peter Wemm wrote:
> >Oh, how I wish dhclient could handle two interfaces!  The old one
> >allowed two interfaces, but was rather stupid about it.  There was
> > no way to specify which interface had priority, so the last one
> > usually won with its default routes.
> >
> >My gateway box at home has two ethernet interfaces that need dhcp. 
> > It seems I'm going to have to hack dhclient-script or something to
> > get it to do something sensible.  It shouldn't be that painful.
> >
> >Linux (gentoo in this case) has dhcpcd, which take switches to allow
> > you to tell it to not mess with resolv.conf or the default route. 
> > No hacking or pain required.  Unlike ours dhclient.
>
> You can customize some of the behaviour of dhclient. See ``man 5
> dhclient.conf'' for details.

I'd love to know which items in dhclient.conf allow you to disable the 
default route handling and the resolv.conf handling..

-- 
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5



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