Just for the heck of it, I installed NetBSD 1.6 on an old laptop. (12MB RAM - not even enough to run Red Hat 6.2's installer!) I've configured it to network through a PCMCIA ethernet card, using DHCP, and it seems to work fine after booting. But then, if I eject the card and reinsert it, the network breaks. Ping gives the message "sendto: no route to host". I can fix this by manually restarting the DHCP client. I'd like this done automatically. I've looked around, but I don't see any way to configure what happens during card ejection and insertion events. Am I missing something? Do the other BSD variants handle PCMCIA differently?
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Glen Ditchfield wrote:
Just for the heck of it, I installed NetBSD 1.6 on an old laptop. (12MB RAM - not even enough to run Red Hat 6.2's installer!) I've configured it to network through a PCMCIA ethernet card, using DHCP, and it seems to work fine after booting. But then, if I eject the card and reinsert it, the network breaks. Ping gives the message "sendto: no route to host". I can fix this by manually restarting the DHCP client. I'd like this done automatically. I've looked around, but I don't see any way to configure what happens during card ejection and insertion events. Am I missing something? Do the other BSD variants handle PCMCIA differently?
AFAIK, this is the default behavior for OpenBSD as well.
Scott
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