On Oct 7, 2013, at 5:31 PM, Allan Jude wrote:

> On 2013-10-07 20:21, Teske, Devin wrote:
>> On Oct 7, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Warren Block wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Allan Jude wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 2013-10-07 16:43, Warren Block wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Allan Jude wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Additional, it includes some other changes to bsdinstall:
>>>>>> 1. Change the default to the 'non-standard keyboard mapping' prompt
>>>>>> to no
>>>>> Please see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/162175 .
>>>> That is a good idea, I'll add that
>>>> 
>>>> I've also hit this:
>>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sysinstall/2013-September/000949.html
>>>> and plan to throw in a fix for that.
>>>> Which makes more sense, blindly 'killall dhclient' before we try to
>>>> acquire a new lease, or detect that dhclient is running and try to use
>>>> the IP that has already been assigned?
>>> killall seems all right.  In fact, internally, it's going to do that check. 
>>>  If nothing named dhclient is running, it will return immediately.
>>> 
>>> Although on 10.0, dhclient does not want to die sometimes.
>>> 
>>> Here's another PR for usability:
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/161547
>> Hope you guys aren't rewriting bsdconfig's network.subr
> 
> These changes are in usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/network and
> usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/network_ipv4
> 

Correct, but I meant "reinvent" actually.

There's an enormous API for dealing with the network.

/usr/share/bsdconfig/media/tcpip.subr

Is for acquiring/maintaining active TCP connections
Meanwhile,...

/usr/share/bsdconfig/network/*.subr

Is for configuring permanent network settings that stick after a reboot.



> I've not touched bsdconfig's network stuff
> 

Probably worth a look. It can probably replace bsdinstall's netconfig.
-- 
Devin

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