Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 00:28:04 -0800 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Interested in patches for dhcp in rc.*? Message-ID: <34890C94.972D09DC@dal.net>
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A lot of people have been asking about our support for DHCP, and as cable modems become more popular, I think that those requests will increase. I use one, and I've been working on integrating it into my system. I've got things going basically the way I want them, and it occured to me that adding options for it into rc.conf and rc.network would be useful. I can hack the scripts and submit patches, but before I do the work I wanted to check on whether it has a reasonable chance of being committed. I was planning on putting something to the effect of dhcp_client_enable (yes/no) and dhcp_client_args (pathname and arguments) in the "Network daemon" section of rc.conf, and putting the check for it first in rc.network since if you don't run it first some of the things in rc.network will conflict. I'd also be interested in suggestions for other/better ways to handle it. One reason for not including something like this would be that it's not actually part of our distribution, and I don't see anything else in rc.conf that falls into that category. OTOH, this isn't something that runs properly if it's placed in rc.local. If you are thinking of incorporating one into the FreeBSD distribution, I'd like to highly recommend the ISC stuff. They guy that's working on DHCP for ISC has been very helpful, and shows interest in making what has been a linux-dominated project more friendly to FreeBSD. (Thanks also to Justin Seeger for maintaining our port of it.) They are in a "just about to be beta" stage right now, and actively soliciting suggestions. The only thing I have use for is the client, but if some of y'all wanted to try out the other parts of the package (server, client, relay, statmsg, sysconfd) and let them know where there are FreeBSD difficulties I'm sure they'd appreciate it. For more info, check out http://www.isc.org/dhcp-dev.html. Looking forward to your comments, Doug
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