Reversing that patch fixes it. Since the source for this is in contrib,
I presume we
need to send this back to ISC rather than patch it in our tree?
Tatsumi Hosokawa wrote:
>
> At Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:22:15 -0700 (PDT),
> Nick Sayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Something changed very recently in the dhcp client stuff that seems
> > to have broke my -current machine's ability to be a dhcp client.
> >
> > The symptom is that I see
> >
> > ifconfig: netmask 255.255.255.224: bad value
> >
> > come out of the script invocation, and the ip address does not get
> > set.
>
> My -current machine (cvsupped only a few hours ago) has the same
> problem.
>
> > If I echo out the parameters and type in THE EXACT SAME command line
> > myself, it works just fine. I suspect some sort of bizarre
> > quoting conspiracy. :-)
>
> Maybe here?
> (in
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/contrib/isc-dhcp/client/scripts/freebsd.diff?r1=1.11&r2=1.12)
>
> - if [ x$old_ip_address = x ] || [ x$old_ip_address != x$new_ip_address ] || \
> - [ x$reason = xBOUND ] || [ x$reason = xREBOOT ]; then
> - ifconfig $interface inet $new_ip_address $new_netmask_arg \
> - $new_broadcast_arg $medium
> + if [ "x$old_ip_address" = "x" ] || [ "x$old_ip_address" != "x$new_ip_address" ]
>|| \
> + [ "x$reason" = "xBOUND" ] || [ "x$reason" = "xREBOOT" ]; then
> + ifconfig "$interface" inet "$new_ip_address" "$new_netmask_arg" \
> + "$new_broadcast_arg" "$medium"
>
> ---------------------------
> Tatsumi Hosokawa
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