dhclient starts on all interfaces referred to in dhclient.conf regardless of command-line parameters

[David W. Hankins]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:17:16PM -0500, Tim Riker wrote:
> note the text "those parameters will then be used only for the interface
> that matches the specified name."
> 
> I read this to mean that since I only told it to bring up eth1 (on the
> command line) that the section for eth0 would be ignored. There is no

That's not the intended meaning of the documentation.  'specified name'
refers to the name specified in the interface declaration in question.

Parameters within the interface declaration will be applied only to
the interface of the specified name...

It says nothing about the selection of interfaces to use based on either
commad line or configuration file inputs.

> There is nothing that states that adding an interface section is just
> like adding the interface on the command line. Things like the alias
> code lead me to this understanding.

I agree, this area is not well documented.

> I can see your view on this completely. If this is the intended
> behaviour then the man pages should be updated to reflect that.

I'll see what I can do to clarify it.

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