On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 02:50:05PM +0300, Denis Doroshenko wrote: > hello, > > in case there is a "dhcp" in hostname.if(5), netstart does > the following: > > cmd="ifconfig $if $name $mask $bcaddr $ext1 $ext2 down" > cmd="$cmd;dhclient $if" > > in my case if have /etc/hostname.ath0 like: > > up nwid openwlan > dhcp > > the interface comes up within the network "openwlan" > and then is brought down before dhclient is started. > so i see nice "ath0: no link .......... sleeping" upon > the system startup. > > what is the reason to bring an interface down in case of > dhcp? google is not clear on this one... >
We're not sure either why dhclient likes to down/up interfaces that often. The dhclient-script needs some work, it is evil in many regards. -- :wq Claudio
