Mike Smith <m...@smith.net.au> wrote: > >> I've got a machine on the DHCP required network with two NICs. Currently >> I'm only using one of them and thus don't have it listed in >> ``network_interfaces''. So it just happily sits there. IMHO we >> shouldn't try to dhcp configure it. It will just fill up logs as it >> continues to try to get a lease which it can't. > >In a situation like that, you would just tune the dhcp client not to >ask for a lease on that interface. You know you've done something >silly; there's a mechanism to stop it breaking things. What more could >you ask for?
POLA. Currently, an interface that isn't mentioned isn't configured at all. Changing that isn't kind. Perhaps having a variable in rc.conf that lists the interfaces to be configured with DHCP would be better? (As opposed to the statically configured interfaces.) Tony. -- f.a.n.finch d...@dotat.at f...@demon.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
