Re: dhclient problem with xl0

From: Martin Blapp <mb_at_imp.ch>
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 14:47:06 +0200 (CEST)
Hi,

> Except that you've added code to dhclient that makes poor assumptions
> about the ifmedia status word.  Its optional; for hardware that you can
> detect media status it can be used to display the status.  For other
> hardware, we shouldn't have to "lie" about media status; if the hardware
> doesn't support reporting media status then we shouldn't do anything with
> the status word.

Isn't there a way to see that the card doesn't support reporting
media status ? If the card does report this, I could add code
to dhclient and all would be fine.

Martin
Received on Sat Aug 09 2003 - 03:47:31 UTC

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