From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 6 15:10:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA22521 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 15:10:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA22509 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 15:10:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA08460 for ; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 16:10:36 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA06830; Sat, 6 Dec 1997 16:10:35 -0700 Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 16:10:35 -0700 Message-Id: <199712062310.QAA06830@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interested in patches for dhcp in rc.*? X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Try again after hub rejected things... ------- start of forwarded message ------- From: Nate Williams To: Studded Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 11:04:11 -0700 > 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. Would it be possible to have the ISC/DHCP port 'patch' the system easily for these kinds of things, or better yet add a new 'rc' file that gets run *after* rc.conf but before rc.network, thereby relying less on FreeBSD's changing file? Then, you'd have the best of both worlds, the ability to keep the 'base' stuff clean from non-existant FreeBSD sources, and also the flexibility of being able to have the new functionality at boot time. Ff/when DHCP gets integrated into the tree I think it should get 'hooks' in the standard files. Nate ------- end of forwarded message -------