on Feb 9, David O'Brien <obr...@nuxi.com> wrote: > > What impact will this have on the rc files? How will it affect > > rc.conf, seeing as it overrides several values therein? > > Most basic, you would have ``network_interfaces="lo0 fxp0"'' as usual, > but no "ifconfig_fxp0="inet ...." line. > > Rather you would have a ``/etc/start_if.fxp0'' file with: > > /sbin/dhcpc fxp0 > sleep 10
this is one of the things ISC does better than WIDE, btw -- dhclient won't background itself until it has an ip address, so you don't have to guess how long it'll take to obtain a lease. no wasted time during boot if things are quick, no lost services if things are slow. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
