From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 13 2: 9:43 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua (alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua [212.9.224.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECBE337B402; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 02:09:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipcard.iptcom.net (ipcard.iptcom.net [212.9.224.5]) by alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA09411; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:09:27 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from vega.vega.com (h198.229.dialup.iptcom.net [212.9.229.198]) by ipcard.iptcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA69656; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:09:24 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vega.vega.com (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2DA8qB88248; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:08:52 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3C8F2570.44E35129@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:09:52 +0200 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,uk,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/nfsclient bootp_subr.c References: <200203130923.g2D9NBL68938@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > luigi 2002/03/13 01:23:11 PST > > Modified files: > sys/nfsclient bootp_subr.c > Log: > Add a readonly sysctl variable of type string, kern.bootp_cookie, > which is initialized with whatever string a dhcp/bootp server passes > as vendor tag 134. > There is no standard tag that I know with this information, and > no vendor-defined tag that applies to FreeBSD that I could find > doing the same thing. > > The intended use is to pass information to userland for run-time > configuration of a diskless client without having to run a bootp/dhcp > client for the third time (after the one in pxeboot/etherboot, and > the one in the kernel bootp), also because these clients generally > screwup the interface configuration, which is not exactly what you > want when you have your disks nfs-mounted. > > Manpage update to follow soon. > > MFC-after: 3 days ^^^^^^^^^ You will not get a notification due superfluous hyphen. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message