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Date:      Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:34:06 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net if.c if.h route.h rtsock.c         src/share/man/man4 route.4 src/sbin/route route.c
Message-ID:  <20020121173406.A77567@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020121101217.69509A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <20020121103822.A16527@sunbay.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020121101217.69509A-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:13:13AM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:04:11PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote:
> > > Any chance this also could send out link state changes?  I'd be very
> > > interested in modifying dhclient to watch for routing socket announcements
> > > regarding the link going up and down, offering the opportunity to start
> > > dhcp in a timely manner...
> > > 
> > BSD always sent RTM_IFINFO for up/down events, and since net/if.c,v 1.83
> > FreeBSD also sends these for MTU changes.
> 
> Hmm. I always thought this was only for administrative up/down events, not
> link up/down events.  However, if I'm wrong, it should be easy to make
> dhclient DTRT :-).
> 
I'm talking about IFF_UP thing here, not sure what do you mean.


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