Re: PATCH: boot-time DHCP
Chip Salzenberg (chip@valinux.com)
Sat, 11 Dec 1999 08:58:13 -0800
According to Andi Kleen:
> chip@valinux.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> > I was surprised to find that the plug-and-play network configuration
> > supports BOOTP and RARP(?!) but not DHCP. So I added it myself.
>
> I think the reason is that the kernel bootp code is really obsolete.
> It will probably go the same way as kernel rarpd sometime in the future..
>
> Doing it by a small user mode program in a initrd is much more sane.
> Near all modern distributions rely on initrd now anyways.
Well, it seems to me that anyone who doesn't want built-in DHCP or
BOOTP is welcome to turn off that config option. But it's seriously
useful for my application.
--
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@valinux.com>
"Fleagal. Bingo. Drooper. Snork. They're cops." //MST3K
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