Re: HEADSUP: OpenBSD dhclient incoming

From: Brooks Davis (brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net)
Date: 06/07/05

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To: Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>

    On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:26:13PM -0400, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:
    >
    > On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Sten Spans wrote:
    >
    > >On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Brooks Davis wrote:
    > >
    > >>I'm about to start importing the OpenBSD dhclient and required
    > >>support in /etc. I will unhook dhclient from the build while I work so
    > >>there shouldn't be much breakage for most people.
    > >>
    > ><snip>
    > >>
    > >>Since the interface configuration process had to change to accommodate
    > >>this, I've taken the opportunity to streamline it. There are now less
    > >>paths by which and interface will be configured. First,
    > >>/etc/rc.d/dhclient is no longer a start script and simply exists to
    > >>start and stop individual dhclients. Second, /etc/rc.d/netif now
    > >>handles both DHCP and non-DHCP interfaces. As a bonus, it can handle
    > >>interface which are both so the following is a valid configuration:
    > >>
    > >>ifconfig_fxp0="DHCP media 100baseTX"
    > >
    > >This is great, another use for this is dhcp on vlan interfaces, aka:
    > >ifconfig_vlan42="DHCP vlandev fxp0"
    > >
    > >Previously this had to be done with interface start scripts.
    >
    > Could I suggest that all of this wonderful magic be documented in the
    > ifconfig and/or dhclient manpage?

    I've got some contributed patches to rc.conf(5) that I will commit today.

    -- Brooks 

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