From owner-freebsd-net Wed Oct 24 9:11:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9F9437B407 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:11:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 9AF0A40F; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:11:07 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:11:07 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: John Polstra Cc: net@freebsd.org, clefevre@citeweb.net Subject: Re: PXE boot vs. DHCP Message-ID: <20011024171107.R46678@tao.org.uk> References: <200110240705.f9O75Fo49531@gits.dyndns.org> <200110241513.f9OFDq006831@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="KqBSqvdnnccM6+Kg" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200110241513.f9OFDq006831@vashon.polstra.com>; from jdp@polstra.com on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:13:52AM -0700 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 --KqBSqvdnnccM6+Kg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 08:13:52AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: =20 > Not quite. It's not the "PXE level," it's the normal operating state > of the system. The only difference is that it was booted with PXE > instead of by some other means. PXE booting is being used more and > more at large installations. My change addresses a common situation > which is becoming more common all the time. >=20 > Shouldn't the standard dhclient installation function properly, > regardless of how the system was booted? I think it should. >=20 > Also, I don't feel that my patch is a hack. The entire purpose of > dhclient's PREINIT phase is to put the network interface into an > enabled state so that IP packets can be sent. If the interface is > already up, then it is already in that state. By failing to check the > interface first, the current dhclient-script needlessly destroys its > configuration and hangs the system. That is a bug, and my patch fixes > it. Hear hear. Joe --KqBSqvdnnccM6+Kg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjvW6BsACgkQXVIcjOaxUBaKJACeMZzu29Df6S+ZSTwn0c1EGiFk hi8An38Izgq+UyL+5ea++I/IuMpAkGgc =3gsr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KqBSqvdnnccM6+Kg-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message