Patch to ignore a few invalid interface types

David W. Hankins David_Hankins at isc.org
Mon Sep 26 18:27:15 UTC 2005


On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 06:41:10PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> Please find attached a patch that was submitted via a Debian user of
> dhcp-client to ignore IRDA interfaces, which I have extended to ignore sit0
> and Firewire Ethernet interfaces as well.

I'll queue this for maint.

Out of curiosity, shouldn't the IEEE1394 changes be an optional behaviour?
Probably defaulting to ignore.  Or am I wrong in thinking that one might
get their address on a firewire network via dhcp?

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