Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:48:01 +0100 From: "Cyrille Lefevre" <clefevre@citeweb.net> To: <net@freebsd.org>, "John Polstra" <jdp@polstra.com> Subject: Re: PXE boot vs. DHCP Message-ID: <002601c15cb4$064fb440$aa3c0007@home.conforama.fr> References: <200110240705.f9O75Fo49531@gits.dyndns.org> <200110241513.f9OFDq006831@vashon.polstra.com>
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"John Polstra" <jdp@polstra.com> wrote: > In article <200110240705.f9O75Fo49531@gits.dyndns.org>, > Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> wrote: > > John Polstra wrote: > > > > > > What is the reason you think it would be better to put the solution > > > into dhclient-enter-hooks? > > > > IMHO, for instance, because this hack is only needed at PXE level > > not after, I am right ? > > Not quite. It's not the "PXE level," it's the normal operating state > of the system. The only difference is that it was booted with PXE > instead of by some other means. PXE booting is being used more and > more at large installations. My change addresses a common situation > which is becoming more common all the time. > > Shouldn't the standard dhclient installation function properly, > regardless of how the system was booted? I think it should. > > Also, I don't feel that my patch is a hack. The entire purpose of > dhclient's PREINIT phase is to put the network interface into an > enabled state so that IP packets can be sent. If the interface is > already up, then it is already in that state. By failing to check the > interface first, the current dhclient-script needlessly destroys its > configuration and hangs the system. That is a bug, and my patch fixes > it. ok, did you ask the dhcp mailing list about that ? since, as a general rule, dhclient should be fixed for all platforms and not only for FreeBSD... Cyrille. -- mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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