On Sun, 16 May 2004 19:27:44 -0500 David Young <dyoung@pobox.com> wrote:

>On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 04:32:09PM -0700, Simon Gerraty wrote:
>> I noticed though that dhclient couldn't get a lease using wm0.
>> In fact even configuring it manually (after killing off dhclient)
>> I could not get any traffic out of it.
>> 
>> BUT as soon as I ran tcpdump on it - it started working.
>> This hints that there's some extra initialization step needed.
>> (hopefully putting it into/outof promiscuous mode isn't it ;-)
>
>dhclient does not put the interface into promiscuous mode?
>
>Dave
>
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I noticed last night that dhclient <if> appeared to wake up *ALL* interfaces
on my X31. I was testing an 802.11 router, and had to unplug my wm0 to stop it
being ifconfig wm0 up by dhclient, even when I called it with ath0.

not sure why.

-George

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