Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 11:42:46 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wish List Message-ID: <40117936.5020005@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <E1Ajzh9-0002d7-Dt@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Danny Braniss wrote: > this is what i did for -current if using PXE boot. > > [ import DHCP tags into kernel env, then use that to > load addition rc.conf files ... ] Nice, but what if you're doing a PXE boot? Maybe there's some way for dhclient to register DHCP information somewhere that other programs can get access to it. A robust solution would need to accomodate systems with multiple DHCP-configured interfaces (that is, DHCP information must be tracked on a per-interface basis). I've often wondered if DHCP client support shouldn't just be moved into the kernel. Rather than running a userland DHCP client, you ask the network interface to DHCP configure itself, (Maybe "ifconfig xl0 -dhcp"?) and can then later ask that interface for relevant DHCP information. (An ifconfig option to export DHCP tags stored in the interface itself?) It's a tough call, though; there's a lot of practical advantages to having DHCP in userland. On the other hand, we already have DHCP in the kernel for PXE booting, so .... Timhome | help
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