On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:34:04PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20090409153805.gb83...@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> > Brooks Davis <bro...@freebsd.org> writes: > : Unless you have one of the few interfaces that does not generate > : link status events, dhclient will be started by devd. The only ones I > : know of are a subset set of ed(4) devices, though I think imp may have > : fixed those recently with a stub ifmedia interface. > > I think ep(4) is the only "common" case left. For ed(4) we now do the > right thing for the really old cards (those without a MII) as well as > the merely old cards (those with a phy). For the really old cards, we > generally default to "Link is up all the time" as our status, > specifically to keep dhclient happy. > > Of course, the number of users of these cards is quite low these > days... I've fixed a number of bugs that should have been bad enough > for people to complain, but since nobody did, I'm guessing the install > base is smaller than I'd thought...
Good to know. This will be pretty useful since some emulators seem to emulate very old ed devices. -- Brooks
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