DragonFlyBSD

Use a pid file in /var to lock out multi dhclients on the same interface?

Best Regards,
sephe

:Hey,
:
:considering this sequence:
:
: dhclient fxp0
:
:now we have ip address & everything is fine. dhclient keeps running
:
: dhclient fxp0
:
:returns error 1. in syslog, it complains about the address already
:beeing taken, because of the running dhlient. However, it will set the
:ip address of fxp0 to 0.0.0.0. Now I'm left with an unusable system.
:
: killall dhclient
: dhclient fxp0
:
:now it works again.
:
:cheers
: simon

I think it has always done that.  If you run dhclient while one is
    already running it explodes the network interface.  Feel free to
    fix the code :-)

-Matt
                    Matthew Dillon 
                    <dillon@backplane.com>

We have a new dhclient.