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Date:      18 Oct 2000 00:47:41 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Nick Hibma <n_hibma@qubesoft.com>, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc usbd.conf
Message-ID:  <xzpog0jt78y.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Robert Watson's message of "Tue, 17 Oct 2000 12:42:54 -0400 (EDT)"
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001017123911.44965C-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> This has come up previously--right now, BPF will notify the user process
> of an interface disappearing via ENODEV on any future operation on the
> file descriptor.  However, the version of DHCP we currently bundle does
> not support this, and instead spins on the ENODEV rather than exiting.

It will also spew out thousands of error messages about this.

> David O'brien indicated that this improvement should come from the ISC
> side and be imported, rather than bumping our dhclient off the vendor
> branch.

You could always cheat and import a patched version on the vendor branch.

>          I believe Ted Lemon indicated that such a change would go into
> version 3 of their DHCP client.

Yes, but when is it due, and are we willing to wait?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org


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