Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:09:38 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: net@freebsd.org Cc: clefevre@citeweb.net Subject: Re: PXE boot vs. DHCP Message-ID: <200110260309.f9Q39cQ20772@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <002601c15cb4$064fb440$aa3c0007@home.conforama.fr> References: <200110240705.f9O75Fo49531@gits.dyndns.org> <200110241513.f9OFDq006831@vashon.polstra.com> <002601c15cb4$064fb440$aa3c0007@home.conforama.fr>
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In article <002601c15cb4$064fb440$aa3c0007@home.conforama.fr>, Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> wrote: > "John Polstra" <jdp@polstra.com> wrote: > > > > 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. > > ok, did you ask the dhcp mailing list about that ? since, as a general rule, > dhclient should be fixed for all platforms and not only for FreeBSD... No, I did not ask the DHCP mailing list about it. You are welcome to do so if you wish. However, please note that (a) pxeboot is FreeBSD-specific, and (b) dhclient-script is OS-specific by design. I have to say, I'm baffled as to why you are looking so hard for ways to obstruct this simple bugfix. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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