John Polstra wrote: > In article <002601c15cb4$064fb440$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Cyrille Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "John Polstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > 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... > > No, I did not ask the DHCP mailing list about it. You are welcome > to do so if you wish. However, please note that (a) pxeboot is > FreeBSD-specific, and (b) dhclient-script is OS-specific by design. > > I have to say, I'm baffled as to why you are looking so hard for ways > to obstruct this simple bugfix.
because I'm not sure this fix didn't cause any problem outside PXE. imagine you have a "normal" machine on which dhclient die for any reason. what's happen when you restart dhclient using your fix ? is everything always work all right ? did you try this case ? Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
