re: CVS commit: src/share/man/man5

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

> > None of these may be attractive to you personally, but this simple
> > change would cut out about 80% of the support requests I get and 
> > that's
> > quite attractive to me.
>
> Can't we have the best of both worlds by allowing dhcpcd to receive 
> messages
> to configure interfaces as rc parses interface configurations? Then we 
> can
> have still one instance, but not requiring to mention the interfaces 
> in the
> configuration file?

The single instance dhcpcd already accepts messages

dhcpcd #start dhcpcd up
dhcpcd -x bgeo # Stop dhcpcd on the bge0 interface
dhcpcd -n iwi0 # Restart dhcpcd on the iwi0 interface

Works just fine.

However, you don't gain anything from setting dhcpcd=YES and 
ifconfig_bge0=dhcp because dhcpcd is permissive by default.

Thanks

Roy

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