"John Polstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Cyrille Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John Polstra wrote: > > > > > > What is the reason you think it would be better to put the solution > > > into dhclient-enter-hooks? > > > > IMHO, for instance, because this hack is only needed at PXE level > > not after, I am right ? > > Not quite. It's not the "PXE level," it's the normal operating state > of the system. The only difference is that it was booted with PXE > instead of by some other means. PXE booting is being used more and > more at large installations. My change addresses a common situation > which is becoming more common all the time. > > Shouldn't the standard dhclient installation function properly, > regardless of how the system was booted? I think it should. > > Also, I don't feel that my patch is a hack. The entire purpose of > dhclient's PREINIT phase is to put the network interface into an > enabled state so that IP packets can be sent. If the interface is > already up, then it is already in that state. By failing to check the > interface first, the current dhclient-script needlessly destroys its > configuration and hangs the system. That is a bug, and my patch fixes > it.
ok, did you ask the dhcp mailing list about that ? since, as a general rule, dhclient should be fixed for all platforms and not only for FreeBSD... Cyrille. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
