On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 07:37:05AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2015-09-22, Kurt Mosiejczuk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I just updated my current box to yesterdays (2015-09-21) snapshot. Now
> > it won't keep a network address.
> That's a recent bug - should be fixed if you update again.
Excellent. I'll watch my mirror for a newer snapshot. It just occurred
to me I didn't have a problem when using bsd.rd. Hopefully that is still
true when I try and install the new snapshot.
Can you point me at the bug fix? I was looking at cvsweb again and the
newest change I could see there is 2 weeks ago...
> > Did the dhclient change get overlooked? Am I doing something else
> > obviously wrong?
> This is unrelated, but dhclient just needed recompiling with the updated
> headers ("include files") to know about the larger ifmedia struct, it
> just uses it to check link status and didn't require any code changes.
> On the other hand ifconfig does more processing with the media status,
> e.g. passing the type to another function to look up the text description,
> so the variable types need changing so that the larger values fit.
Okay, good. Also glad I didn't work hard on getting an up to date source
tree on the machine with no network currently to try and fix it :)
> BTW this ifmedia change was because we were running out of space in
> the structure for different media types (10base2, 10baseT, 100baseTX,
> 1000baseSX, 1000baseT etc for ethernet, various modulation types for
> 802.11 wireless, etc), the change allows space for more types for
> future use (e.g. there's an IEEE working group, 802.3bz, looking at
> standardizing 2.5/5Gb over cat5e, and other existing standards we don't
> support yet).
Cool. Thanks for the explanation on the change.
--Kurt
