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Subject: Re: ifconfig, wifi, and DHCP
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Brooks Davis wrote:

> In theory dhclient shouldn't need to be called manually.  The fact that
> it appears to be needed indicates that the wi driver fails to set it's
> link state correctly and thus to pass information up to devd which would
> start dhclient.

Oops, that's right. I guess I still got my head stuck in the old days :-)

I do maintain the point that it's easiest to just call netif though.

Alphons

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