updates to networking chapter regarding new dhclient

Marc Fonvieille blackend at freebsd.org
Tue Jul 12 21:09:21 UTC 2005


On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:33:13PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 10:06:52PM +0200, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I have made a patch to the documentation of dhclient in the network 
> > servers section of the handbook. The patch only mentions the new OpenBSD 
> > dhclient instead of the "old" ISC one.
> 
> The content looks fine.  There are some whitespace changes that may not
> be correct.  One difference between the two clients you might wish
> to mention is that the hack of using dhclient.conf media statements to
> find wireless networks doens't work anymore.  Users should use
> wpa_supplicant instead (and we should document wpa_supplicant a bit).
>
[...]

Nice, so we can use the content of this patch.  I heard about some
wpa_supplicant doc work from Brad and Sam, I assume they will take care
of the dhclient+wifi issue.

I'll try to add these changes ASAP.
Thanks.

Marc
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