Annoying ERROR: 'wlan0' is not a DHCP-enabled interface

[Doug Barton]

On 11/18/2011 12:45, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> Xin, good day.
> 
> Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:38:31PM -0800, Xin LI wrote:
>> Is there any counter reasoning about "having an interface marked as
>> non-DHCP is not an error"?  I'm still not convinced with the benefit
>> of having it show an error message.
> 
> Well, when I invoke 'service dhclient start em0' and em0 isn't
> DHCP-enabled, I want to see some diagnostics on why I was not able to
> get DHCP on that interface.  Return code isn't that visible (I can, of
> course, always run it as 'service dhclient start em0 || echo failed'),
> but I am not up to typing more than needed and I should see the real
> reason for absence of DHCP-assigned address in that case, be it the
> non-DHCP-enabled interface or some other problem.

Right, that's my argument as well.

If there is a particular code path that leads to attempting dhclient on
a non-dhcp interface I'd rather see that code path fixed than to
suppress the warning.


Doug

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