Wireless hiccup when ifconfig_xl0 enabled...

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 12:03:51 +0100
> From: Tobias Roth <roth at iam.unibe.ch>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> 
> On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:15:29AM +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote:
> > 
> > How can I have both statements enabled so that it will automatically choose the right connection on startup without having it do a hiccup for two minutes when I am on the move, e.g. wireless?
> 
> https://projects.fsck.ch/profile/
> 
> allthough maybe a bit overkill for your purpose...
> 
> and I didn't really get around to work on this the last few months, so
> it's likely that you have to do a little bit of adjusting of the patches
> to get it to work with 5.3 -stable (nothing complicated though).
> 
> i'll promise that i'll start working on it again very-soon-now (tm), so
> it might eventually get to the state where we can consider including it in
> -current.

I am running it under 5.3 Stable and I've had no problems at all. Of
course, every configurations different, so YMMV.

Rest assured that I would have reported any problems to Tobias. (I am
working on some enhancements, but to do what I really want to do will
require enhancement to union mounts and I would not bet on my getting
that done.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634