From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 6 01:24:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA03491 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 01:24:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA03486 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 01:24:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id BAA19869; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 01:24:32 -0800 (PST) To: Studded cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interested in patches for dhcp in rc.*? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 06 Dec 1997 00:28:04 PST." <34890C94.972D09DC@dal.net> Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 01:24:32 -0800 Message-ID: <19865.881400272@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > A lot of people have been asking about our support for DHCP, and as Yep! > 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. Well, it's a multi-dimensional problem. The first part is bringing dhcp support into the system, perhaps using the NetBSD version as a starting point (though their makefiles are a little different, having the ability to mix the subdir and port/lib includes the way they do - envy :). Then the dhcp client libraries will intrinsically be available to things like sysinstall, which could use it to support dhcp configuration of all the IP values during installation. :) Then you add all the rc glue to use it and voila, you're done! When can you start? :-) Jordan