Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:35:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE boot vs. DHCP Message-ID: <200110260735.f9Q7Zke65186@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200110260309.f9Q39cQ20772@vashon.polstra.com>
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John Polstra wrote: > 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. because I'm not sure this fix didn't cause any problem outside PXE. imagine you have a "normal" machine on which dhclient die for any reason. what's happen when you restart dhclient using your fix ? is everything always work all right ? did you try this case ? Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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