multiple DHCP interfaces

[Jesse Guardiani]

Dominic Mitchell wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:57:08PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>> In message: <3EED1634.30404 at cs.unisa.edu.au>
>>             Benjamin Close <cisbjc at cs.unisa.edu.au> writes:
>> : Is there any likely hood this will change in the future? Not beingable
>> : to do dhcp on more than one interface seems insane.
>> : For example a laptop with a hardwired ethernet card and a wireless
>> : card.
>> 
>> I'd love to remove it.  I don't recall the reasons it was added.  It
>> is completely insane when you have, say, a laptop with a wired network
>> built in, which you want to run dhclient on, and you want to run a
>> dhclient on a wireless interface you plug in...
> 
> Just as a data point, this has bitten me in the past as well.  The
> annoying thing is that you don't even have to be using the builtin
> network adaptor; just so long as it's running dhclient, you're screwed
> when you put the wireless card in.  You have to manually sort it all
> out by running dhclient against both the old and the new interfaces...

I take it that this is a subject we should address on -current?

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