Re: [Ieee80211-devel] Re: ieee80211 patches

[Christoph H. <hc...@in...>]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 07:08:02PM +0200, Jiri Benc wrote:
> But is it really needed? Imagine the situation when computer is started
> with unplugged ethernet cable which is plugged in later. I know, this is
> rare, but - shouldn't be the right approach that DHCP is started by
> hotplug when the carrier is detected?

Yes.  It's what happens on any sanely setup linux system (using ifplugd
or something similar).