Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 09:19:22 -0400 From: Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multiple DHCP interfaces Message-ID: <bcn4go$vve$1@main.gmane.org> References: <bcdbul$9u0$1@main.gmane.org> <20030613.192941.78708305.imp@bsdimp.com> <3EED1634.30404@cs.unisa.edu.au> <20030616.225708.08322880.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030617071212.GA66426@ppe.happygiraffe.net>
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Dominic Mitchell wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:57:08PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: >> In message: <3EED1634.30404@cs.unisa.edu.au> >> Benjamin Close <cisbjc@cs.unisa.edu.au> writes: >> : Is there any likely hood this will change in the future? Not beingable >> : to do dhcp on more than one interface seems insane. >> : For example a laptop with a hardwired ethernet card and a wireless >> : card. >> >> I'd love to remove it. I don't recall the reasons it was added. It >> is completely insane when you have, say, a laptop with a wired network >> built in, which you want to run dhclient on, and you want to run a >> dhclient on a wireless interface you plug in... > > Just as a data point, this has bitten me in the past as well. The > annoying thing is that you don't even have to be using the builtin > network adaptor; just so long as it's running dhclient, you're screwed > when you put the wireless card in. You have to manually sort it all > out by running dhclient against both the old and the new interfaces... I take it that this is a subject we should address on -current? -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net
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