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From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc: clefevre@citeweb.net
Subject: Re: PXE boot vs. DHCP
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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


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