Re: STEP 2, fixing dhclient behaviour with multiple interfaces

From: M. Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:18:05 -0600 (MDT)
In message: <20030730013027.D25188_at_cvs.imp.ch>
            Martin Blapp <mb_at_imp.ch> writes:
: 
: Hi Folks,
: 
: I had a closer loom at the OMAPI stuff in dhclient.
: 
: Just to say, I'm very disappointed. The only objects that exist are:
: "control" and "interface". The later is not inplemented at all.
: It pretends to work, but if you look at the source there are
: stubs only :P.
: 
: "control" does only release leases and exit (state 2), I never managed to make
: dhclient sleep (state 3) and wake up (state 2).
: 
: It seems that the whole implementation is only a proof of concept
: and not very functional at all, at least for the client side, dhcpd
: may be different.
: 
: I'll think about how we can solve this differently. This
: really sucks !

That's why I start/kill dhclient from pccard_ether.

Warner
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 19:18:59 UTC

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