On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 01:23:57PM +1100, Robert Jenssen wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the prompt reply. By "owned", I meant that "ps -ajx" > shows /sbin/devd as the process group leader. For example, at the moment on > my system: > > [root etc]ps -axj | grep devd > root 5727 1 5727 5727 0 Is ?? 0:00.00 /sbin/devd > [root etc]ps -axj | grep dhclient > root 6373 1 5727 5727 0 I ?? 0:00.00 dhclient: ral0 > _dhcp 6395 1 6395 6395 0 Ss ?? 0:00.09 dhclient: ral0 > [root etc] > > I agree, /sbin/devd calls /etc/rc.d/dhclient which checks for the existence > of > a running dhclient. I find the rc scripts hard to follow but so far as I can > see /etc/rc.d/netif simply calls "ifconfig dhcp" and doesn't check for a > running dhclient.
The head of the process group is completely irrelevent and has no effect.
/etc/rc.d/netif litereally calls /etc/rc.d/dhclient is most definitly does not
call "ifconfig dhcp" since no varient of that has ever worked.
if dhcpif $1; then
if [ $_cfg -ne 0 ] ; then
ifconfig $1 up
fi
if syncdhcpif $1; then
/etc/rc.d/dhclient start $1
fi
_cfg=0
fi
> Here are the relevant lines in my rc.conf:
>
> rc_debug="YES"
> ifconfig_ral0="inet dhcp channel 10 wpa up"
"inet" is wrong here and "channel 10" is pointless unless you're running
an AP or in ad-hoc mode. You're basically luck that anything works for
you since this generates a completely bogus ifconfig command.
> devd_enable="YES"
>
> Here is the output of "/etc/rc.d/netif restart":
>
> [root etc]rc.d/netif restart
> rc.d/netif: DEBUG: run_rc_command: doit: network_stop
> Stopping network:Stopping wpa_supplicant.
> /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant: DEBUG: run_rc_command: doit: kill -TERM 6229
> /etc/rc.d/dhclient: DEBUG: run_rc_command: doit: dhclient_stop
> lo0 fwip0 fwe0 rl0 ral0 plip0rc.d/netif: DEBUG: The following interfaces
> were
> not configured:
> .
> rc.d/netif: DEBUG: run_rc_command: doit: network_start
> rc.d/netif: DEBUG: Cloned:
> Starting wpa_supplicant.
> /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant: DEBUG: run_rc_command:
> doit: /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -q -B -i ral0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -D
> bsd -P /var/run/wpa_supplicant/ral0.pid
> rc.d/netif: DEBUG: checkyesno: synchronous_dhclient is set to YES.
> /etc/rc.d/dhclient: DEBUG: run_rc_command: doit: dhclient_start
> /etc/rc.d/dhclient: DEBUG: checkyesno: background_dhclient is set to NO.
> ral0: no link ............ got link
> DHCPREQUEST on ral0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPDISCOVER on ral0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> DHCPOFFER from 192.168.0.1
> DHCPREQUEST on ral0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPACK from 192.168.0.1
> bound to 192.168.0.4 -- renewal in 43200 seconds.
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> ether 00:xx:....
> inet 192.168.0.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/54Mbps)
> status: associated
> ssid xxxxxxxxxxxx channel 10 (2457 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:xx:.....
> authmode WPA privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF TKIP 3:128-bit txpower 50
> bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
> roam:rssi11g 7 roam:rate11g 5 protmode CTS roaming MANUAL
> rc.d/netif: DEBUG: The following interfaces were not configured: fwip0 fwe0
> rl0 plip0
> /etc/rc.d/ipfilter: DEBUG: checkyesno: ipfilter_enable is set to NO.
>
> Now I have four dhclient processes:
>
> [root etc]ps -axj | grep dhclient
> root 9824 1 5727 5727 0 S ?? 0:00.00 dhclient: ral0
> [pri
> _dhcp 9853 1 9853 9853 0 Ss ?? 0:00.00 dhclient: ral0
> (dhc
> _dhcp 9880 1 9880 9880 0 Ss ?? 0:00.00 dhclient: ral0
> (dhc
> root 9826 1 9283 1916 0 S p0 0:00.00 dhclient: ral0
> [pri
>
> It seems that devd has started two new dhclients and netif has started its
> own
> pair as well. 1916 is the process id of the bash shell I su'ed from to
> start /etc/rc.d/netif.
Does you still set four processes in the steady state? That shouldn't happen
since starting a second dhclient is supposed to kill the existing one.
There should be two processes per interface due to the privege seperation
model used by dhclient.
-- Brooks
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