Patch to ignore a few invalid interface types

[Andrew Pollock]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:27:15AM -0700, David W. Hankins wrote:
> 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?
> 

I was wondering this when I patched it out, but at present dhcp-client
complains with my Firewall Ethernet interface, but this could conversely be
probably patched in the opposite direction to work properly...

regards

Andrew