Hello, Warner.
You wrote 22 августа 2012 г., 0:04:41:

>>  BTW, typical  MIPS  SoC-based  router has only 16MiB of flash. And,
>> yes, FreeBSD doesn't fit well in this size now, but why add another
>> mandatory program, only role of which is to monitor network cable and
>> re-run the same program every time?
WL> You'd typically not run dhclient in daemon mode in a SoC, since
WL> you don't want to chew up the memory all the time, and you'd
WL> likely replace the system dhclient with one that's simpler...  But
  My  ISP  wants lease renewal every 10800 second (3 hours). Do I need
to  add  cron  task  if  I  don't  want to run dhclient as a daemon on
router?

WL> the network notification part of devd would be trivial to
WL> reproduce if you wanted in a specialized daemon that would do what's 
required.
 IMHO, OpenBSD way, when dhclient renew lease after down/up cycle by
 itself, is much better.

-- 
// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <l...@freebsd.org>

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