Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 15:44:26 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>, config@FreeBSD.ORG, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd idea Message-ID: <199909032244.PAA01768@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Sep 1999 15:39:33 PDT." <19990903153932.A55391@dragon.nuxi.com>
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> > BOOTP is not necessarily sufficient. BOOTP does not allow truly > > dynamic configuration, or at least not with the ISC dhcpd. > > Remember we are talking about the loader here, for net booting. Not for > after you've booted. When net booting you need to tell the loader the > kernel's name and the path to / . I could be wrong, but I think you > usually would not want these dolled out randomly. For example: You don't want them handed out randomly, no, but conversely you (probably ) want the same address to be used by the system once it's up and running. At least in theory if the loader is able to pull the DHCP config off, it can pass the relevant lease details on to the kernel, which can be used to seed dhclient. It's all a bit vague at the moment, and there's plenty of room to change things around as the code matures. For now, suffice to say that I expect to add DHCP if for no other reason than that's all that PXE supports. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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