On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > Martin Blapp wrote: > > I't is my goal to make dhclient really functional, so it can not only > > be used with one interface, but several. > > > > On a well known OS this works just fine. A first interface gets > > initialized and the GW gets set as usual. But if a second interface > > gets added, and the first one is still active and has a working lease, > > the GW will not be overwriten. If you remove now the first interface, > > the default GW changes to the one of the second interface. > [ ... ] > > If there are other ideas, I'm open to them. > > You could add kevents for interface arrival and departure, and add a > kqueue to the dhcpd to catch the arrival/departure events, and then just > act on them. Some of those events already exist for routing sockets, so in a worst case scenario, you can hook up a routing socket to a kqueue :-). Martin -- you might want to try the "route monitor" command sometime and take a look at the vent stream there for things to consider. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert_at_fledge.watson.org Network Associates LaboratoriesReceived on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 05:25:17 UTC
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