Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 06:50:19 GMT From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/61239: [patch] bootp enhancement, places the dhcp tags into the Message-ID: <200508070650.j776oJXb081674@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/61239; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Max Campos <mcampos@bpsw.biz> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/61239: [patch] bootp enhancement, places the dhcp tags into the Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 09:20:30 +0300 > I've applied this patch to my own FreeBSD 5.4 system and it works > great! It would be great to see this applied. There are several > things that are currently broken that this patch fixes: > > 1) /etc/rc.d/hostname - Enables us diskless folks to get the client's > hostname from DHCP, rather than overriding the rc.conf (this is > currently the ONLY reason for me to override rc.conf for each > diskless client). > > 2) /etc/rc.d/resolv - Enables a reasonable /etc/resolv.conf to be > written from the DHCP packet. > > Incidentally these features have been in the startup scripts since > 2002 (/etc/rc.d/diskless v1.23), but the dhcp.* kenv variables have, > AFAIK, never been set. > this is because the dhcp.* are set by the modified bootp. > Finally, this was also reported as PR kern/43474, back in 2002. >
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