From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 21 0:15:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A21BE37B423; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:15:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.16.13] ident=exim) by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13c0Zl-00063j-00; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:15:21 +0300 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ident=danny) by sexta.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13c0Zj-0001zL-00; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:15:19 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-0.24 To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 20 Sep 2000 23:48:46 -0700 . Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:15:19 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200009210648.XAA02252@mass.osd.bsdi.com>you write: }Mostly I guess I'd really like it to simply save *all* of the DHCP }response in the environment. Just "dhcp.xxx" where xxx is the parameter }value would probably do it, or we can argue about names for everything if }there aren't established names already. } what's in a name ;-) the dhcp.xxx stuff is easy, the problem is that the DHCP options are not enough, so im trying to look into defining a FBSDclass ala PXEClient, and supplying stuff like usr-ip/usr-path swap-ip/swap-path or whatever. }There should be no real problems with the lease, as most leases are more }than long enough to boot the system anyway, so I wouldn't bother with }that. } and this is not a MS system that needs allot of magic before it boots up ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message