From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 06:50:37 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA23892 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 06:50:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA23876; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 06:50:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id XAA28094; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 23:50:17 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36C041F5.28C9AB40@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 23:11:01 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Kargl CC: Joe Abley , obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: adding DHCP client to src/contrib/ References: <199902082319.PAA63547@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Kargl wrote: > > > > The plan is to make a boot floppy / boot CDROM with a DHCP client on it. > > Content-Type: text/BLOAT > > These should be left has ports. I disagree. It is very common nowadays to need to extract your IP address through DHCP. Not having a DHCP boot floppy/cd is a serious disadvantage. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org Well, as a computer geek, I have to believe in the binary universe. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message