dhclient behaviour on link status changes

[Peter Jeremy]

On 2012-Apr-05 07:17:49 +1000, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at acm.org> wrote:
>/etc/devd.conf includes a rule to start dhclient when an Ethernet or
>802.11 interface reports "link up", with a comment: "No link down rule
>exists because dhclient automatically exits when the link goes down."
>IMHO, this is the desired behaviour, unfortunately it's not the way
>dhclient actually behaves.  In my experience, dhclient will exit when
>the interface goes down but ignores link status changes.

I found an easy way to correct the behaviour & submitted bin/166656

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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