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

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

On 03/10/2012 10:45, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Can this be combined with something like "denyinterfaces *" in
> dhcpcd.conf to mean "start dhcpcd, but don't actually do anything on
> any interfaces", and then later send a message to mean "start 
> actually
> doing something on the bge0 interface"?  And then can we make
> ifconfig_bge0=dhcpcd send a suitable message?

Yes, and this already works.
The only problem is that dhcpcd starts AFTER the network script and I 
don't know how to go about changing that.
The other issue is that /var is required to be mounted rw.

> > However, you don't gain anything from setting dhcpcd=YES and 
> > ifconfig_bge0=dhcp because dhcpcd is permissive by default.
>
> Some people would like interfaces to do nothing by default, until
> explicitly configured with either "use dhcp" or "use these static
> settings".

These same people can still do this. At no point am I stopping them 
from doing this.
I am just encouraging the use of dhcpcd.conf to allow or restrict 
interfaces instead of rc.conf
But is that the real problem? You *want* to use rc.conf. If so, why?

Thanks

Roy

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