On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:48:26PM +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> I had changed my dhclient.conf file to include
> 
> 
> 	interface "wm0" {
> 	       media "media autoselect";
> 	}
> 
> That meant that any time I was using wireless or EVDO, dhclient was
> still trying to acquire a wired lease.  This in turn meant constant
> ifconfigs to change the media type, and neither dhclient nor the driver
> noticed that these were the options already in effect.  Furthermore,
> doing this sort of change seems to grab the whole machine briefly,
> though I haven't figured out quite why.

Changing media type is the job of the PHY diver, no? what PHY driver do
you have?