On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:50:47AM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote: > brooks 2006-04-13 06:50:47 UTC > > FreeBSD src repository > > Modified files: > etc network.subr > etc/defaults rc.conf > share/man/man5 rc.conf.5 > Log: > Commit the various network interface configutation updates I've been > working on. > 1) Make it possible to configure interfaces with certain characters in > their names that aren't valid in shell variables. Currently supported > characters are ".-/+". They are converted into '_' characters. > 2) Replace nearly all eval statements in network.subr with a new > function get_if_var which substitues an interface name (after the > translations above) for "IF" in a variable name. > 3) Fix list_net_interfaces() in the nodhcp case. > 4) Allow the administrator to specify if dhclient should be started > when /etc/rc.d/netif configures the interface or only by devd. > This can be set on both a per interface and system wide basis.
> | @@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ nisdomainname="NO" # Set to NIS domain
> | dhclient_program="/sbin/dhclient" # Path to dhcp client program.
> | dhclient_flags="" # Additional flags to pass to dhcp client.
> | background_dhclient="NO" # Start dhcp client in the background.
> | +syncronous_dhclient="YES" # Start dhclient directly on configured
> | + # interfaces during startup.
I had planned to be more tactful, but this made me smile:
% dict syncronous
1 definition found
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
syncronous
<spelling> It's spelled "{synchronous}".
(1996-12-13)
Ceri
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That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
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