In article <20051205040131.5B6D13C0159@berkshire.machshav.com>,
Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
>In message <Pine.NEB.4.63.0512051238200.5296@angelic.cynic.net>, Curt Sampson w
>rites:
>>On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any way to do such initialization in a dhclient.conf file?
>>> That's how I set nwid and nwkey for my wireless cards.
>>
>>Presumably you use the "media" statement in your dhclient.conf for this?
>
>Yes.
>>
>>I don't see how one could run an external program from dhclient.conf; I
>>think you'd need to modify the dhclient-script itself.
>>
>I was wondering if there was some variant I didn't know of -- say,
>
>	media "!...."

Problem is that there is no way to escape whitespace in the stupid parser.

christos