From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 11 9:18:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18EE337B422 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:18:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.16.13] ident=exim) by cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14nNK1-0000i2-00; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:18:21 +0300 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=sexta.cs.huji.ac.il ident=danny) by sexta.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 14nNK0-0002G5-00; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:18:20 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-0.24 To: Sven Huster Subject: Re: diskless operation Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 11 Apr 2001 16:44:40 +0200 . Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:18:20 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <5.0.2.1.0.20010411164359.00a63880@mx01.mailsurf.com>you write: }But my interface has no ip after boot! }So dhclient needs to be invoked. if you are booting via bootp/pxe then the loader will have placed in the environment some info. see kenv(1), or before loading, type show. look in /etc/rc.diskless1, it will try and figure out the interface and set some variables so that rc.network can do the rest. do you get a message, like Interface exp0 IP-Address 10.0.0.1 Broadcast ... ? as far as i know, you dont't need dhclient if you are booting diskless, unless there is other info you need, such as gateway, dns server, etc. danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message