Subject: Re: dhclient - what's TRT?
To: Scott Ellis <scotte@intrepid.warped.com>
From: Chris Jones <cjones@honors.montana.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 02/11/1998 12:27:32
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Scott Ellis wrote:
> I added in a call to dhclient just after mounting the "Critical Filesystems"
> in /etc/rc and it seems to work just fine.  There should be a nicer way
> to do this via some rc.conf option, but I've been too lazy to create
> a pretty solution to the problem.

I just used netstart.local.  It was called from approximately the right
place in /etc/rc.  Just make sure you call dhclient in the foreground, not
the background.  It needs to block until it gets interfaces configured, at
which point it backgrounds itself.

Chris

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