Couple of undocumented "reasons" for dhclient-script invocation

[David W. Hankins]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:07:24PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> I've got a bug reported against dhclient-script (or more specifically,
> the man page for it) whereby $reason can be set to RELEASE or STOP, but
> this isn't mention in the man page.

It can also be set to NBI and this isn't in the manpage either.  In
case your script isn't trapping this either; NBI is used to indicate
that dhclient was unable to find any broadcast interfaces ("No Broadcast
Interfaces" I suspect was the general idea).  Whatever the case, dhclient
believes itself to be interfaceless.

A dhclient-script encountering this might set some state aside somewhere
to make the system invoke configuration on non-broadcast interfaces (try
ppp etc).


I've corrected all three of these in the dhclient manpage for next maint
release.

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