From owner-freebsd-net Wed Oct 31 14:31:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD5937B405 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:31:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f9VMVU186374; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:31:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:31:30 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov" Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE boot vs. DHCP (fwd) Message-ID: <20011031143130.B86319@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <200110231530.f9NFUwm46770@vashon.polstra.com> <200110231535.f9NFZAg46786@vashon.polstra.com> <20011023103449.A49909@dragon.nuxi.com> <15327.59225.65670.553150@vbook.express.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15327.59225.65670.553150@vbook.express.ru>; from vova@express.ru on Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:58:17PM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:58:17PM +0300, Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote: > David O'Brien writes: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 08:35:10AM -0700, jdp@polstra.com wrote: > > > The patch below for dhclient-script fixes the problem for me. > > > > Murray and I are very close to importing dhclient 3 (vs. the versoin 2 we > > have now). I would prefer to wait until then before changing > > isc-dhcp/client/scripts/freebsd. dhclient 3 has a lot of > > "modernizations" such as support for dynamic DNS, and I would not be > > surprised if PXE booting wasn't also better supported. > > Does new dhclient support checking media state before trying send > requests ? For some environments it is useful not try dhcp at all when > card not connected to network. I don't know. This would almost sound like an rc.network issue rather than dhclient one. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message