Re: Devd event from GEOM?

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:50:22AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > be properly managed by today's dhclient.  Likewise, I want to always have
> > link local addresses configured for every network interface, and not have
> > things like dhclient step on them.  This requires dhclient to become
> > substantially more mature and/or grow a lot, or it requires a new daemon. 
> > Having many daemons is just asking for them all to step on each other's
> > toes, adding and removing addresses and routes in ways that leaves me with
> > nothing useful to network with, requiring user intervention.  If you've
> > ever used a FreeBSD box in this scenario, followed by a Mac OS X box,
> > you'll know what I mean.  Neither is perfect, but the one with centralized
> > configuration management does a much better job :-).
> 
> FWIW, Sam's got a port of openbsd's dhclient in perforce.  It's
> apparently significantly less foobar then ours.  Unfortunatly, dhclient
> isn't enough because we also need wpa_supplication for modern wireless
> networks (it also provides basic 802.1x support for wired interfaces in
> linux and we'll probably want that too.)  I think we'll be able to
> simply add a wpa_supplicant_ifs="..." variable to start wpa_supplicant
> independent of dhclient, but I'm not 100% sure yet.

And than you want howl for Zeroconf/Rendezvous... If people agreed to have
it in the base system, some scripting would tie everything together
seamlessly to give the same level of functionality as Mac OS X or better.

Bye,
	Andrea

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