[PATCH] dhclient active interface detection patch

Martin Blapp mb at imp.ch
Mon Apr 21 15:13:05 PDT 2003


Hi all,

Just to note. If you start your laptop without net connection
it will hang when dhclient gets started. To prevent/workaround
this, you'll have to add the option -nw.

Of course one could just skip the autodetection of the interface
and proceed anyway. But then the polling is not done and one has
still to restart dhclient manually.

I added this to the patchset I've made together with two different
minor fixes.

I beleave that this patch now really works good for all cases.

--- etc/rc.d/dhclient.orig	Tue Apr 22 00:00:05 2003
+++ etc/rc.d/dhclient	Tue Apr 22 00:00:16 2003
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 . /etc/network.subr

 name="dhclient"
-command="/sbin/${name}"
+command="/sbin/${name} -nw"
 pidfile="/var/run/${name}.pid"
 case "${OSTYPE}" in
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