Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@nimenees.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:34:28AM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote:
>
> > ... - it looks like the first thing dhclient does is down the
> > interface and then bring it up, so it still fails.
> 
> hmm... has dhclient always done that?

I think so -- I found switching a NFS diskless system to use dhclient
caused problems some years back because of that behaviour.

Giles