Re: Question on ue devices autoconfigure versus Linux.

2014-11-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
Well sure, but we have devd in FreeBSD for some time. It actually does handle the hot plug (sort-of...) I made a custom devd hook for it. The actual problem is that if I boot FreeBSD with the device plugged in then devd never runs my hooks. That and I'm not sure if devd is even the right

Re: Question on ue devices autoconfigure versus Linux.

2014-11-28 Thread Ed Maste
On 28 November 2014 at 20:16, Alfred Perlstein alf...@freebsd.org wrote: Also really interested in knowing how the heck Linux figures out the IP address? The 169.254.x.x is a link-local IPv4 address - see RFC 3927. I haven't used it, but the avahi-autoipd pkg might take care of it for you.

Re: Question on ue devices autoconfigure versus Linux.

2014-11-28 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 11/28/14, 5:36 PM, Ed Maste wrote: On 28 November 2014 at 20:16, Alfred Perlstein alf...@freebsd.org wrote: Also really interested in knowing how the heck Linux figures out the IP address? The 169.254.x.x is a link-local IPv4 address - see RFC 3927. I haven't used it, but the