On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:52:49 +0000
Pavel Cahyna <pavel@NetBSD.org> wrote:

> 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?
> 

makphy.  (Aside: I have many complaints about phy handling for wm
NICs.  See kern/35386 for details.  I should note that at least some of
those problems happen with makphy and ukphy.)


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb