dhcpcd vs. non-x86 diskless clients

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

On my i386 and amd64 diskless clients, I can use 'dhcpcd' to complete
network configuration.

On non-x86 diskless clients (evbmips-mips64el, sparc, macppc), I cannot
do this because as soon as 'dhcpcd' takes the interface down, the client
begins incurring NFS errors since the network is down.

Is perhaps the working set not all resident before 'dhcpcd' begins
manipulating the interface?

I seem to recall that 'dhcpcd' used to work for non-x86 diskless systems
back when netbsd-5 was new.  It stopped sometime before netbsd-6 was
tagged.  I don't really know when.  I just punted to purely static
configuration on the affected systems.

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