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| author | brooks <brooks@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-09-09 20:28:58 +0000 |
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| committer | brooks <brooks@FreeBSD.org> | 2009-09-09 20:28:58 +0000 |
| commit | 7767fd5cfa84d293feba031571228c6ea1ec96e2 (patch) | |
| tree | 74742b60f7173bdd6d4dce805bb286d4d6c5bda4 | |
| parent | 91e4a6b834197fdf10dd07c23bd576519f2fc30c (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-7767fd5cfa84d293feba031571228c6ea1ec96e2.zip FreeBSD-src-7767fd5cfa84d293feba031571228c6ea1ec96e2.tar.gz | |
Mention that a few ed(4) devices don't emit link state change notices
and a workaround for dhclient.
Reviewed by: thierry
MFC after: 3 days
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/ed.4 | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/ed.4 b/share/man/man4/ed.4 index 5b375f6..6974aeb 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/ed.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/ed.4 @@ -425,3 +425,21 @@ driver is slow by today's standards. .Pp PC Card attachment supports the D-Link DMF650TX LAN/Modem card's Ethernet port only at this time. +.Pp +Some devices supported by +.Nm +do no generate the link state change events used by +.Xr devd 8 +to start +.Xr dhclinet 8 . +If you have problems with +.Xr dhclient 8 +not starting and the device is always attached to the network it may +be possible to work around this by changing +.Dq Li DHCP +to +.Dq Li SYNCDHCP +in the +.Va ifconfig_ed0 +entry in +.Pa /etc/rc.conf . |
