From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 00:15:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA28948 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 00:15:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA28906 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 00:15:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.8/8.6.12) id AAA18918; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 00:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19981007001529.A18576@nuxi.com> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 00:15:29 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Satoshi Asami , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM as system disk Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199810062326.QAA07881@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199810062326.QAA07881@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi Asami on Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 04:26:05PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > One problem is how to identify the hostname. Since it is currently ... > An idea I came up with is: > > (1) During boot, machine picks an IP address (at random) in a certain > range Use DHCP. Solaris 2.6 even sets the hostname from the DHCP querry. Check RFC's 2131, 1534, 2132, and 1542 to see if you can't get a lot of th info you will need from the DHCP server. > What do you guys think? Am I totally off the mark? Would be a cool thing to have available to others. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message