23 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-smallRe: Odd idea | From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Mike Smith | Sep 2, 1999 11:41 pm | |
| Warner Losh | Sep 2, 1999 11:44 pm | |
| Skip Hansen | Sep 3, 1999 8:10 am | |
| Chris Dillon | Sep 3, 1999 10:10 am | |
| Mike Smith | Sep 3, 1999 12:08 pm | |
| Mike Smith | Sep 3, 1999 12:35 pm | |
| John Ioannidis | Sep 3, 1999 12:35 pm | |
| Warner Losh | Sep 3, 1999 12:41 pm | |
| Skip Hansen | Sep 3, 1999 1:38 pm | |
| David O'Brien | Sep 3, 1999 2:16 pm | |
| Broderick Wood | Sep 3, 1999 2:59 pm | |
| Chris Dillon | Sep 3, 1999 3:02 pm | |
| David O'Brien | Sep 3, 1999 3:39 pm | |
| Mike Smith | Sep 3, 1999 3:44 pm | |
| David O'Brien | Sep 3, 1999 4:15 pm | |
| Mike Smith | Sep 3, 1999 4:19 pm | |
| Jac Backus | Sep 4, 1999 12:36 pm | |
| Kent Berggren | Sep 4, 1999 1:48 pm | |
| Chris Dillon | Sep 4, 1999 7:13 pm | |
| Mike Smith | Sep 4, 1999 7:13 pm | |
| Chris Dillon | Sep 4, 1999 10:20 pm | |
| Mike Smith | Sep 4, 1999 11:18 pm | |
| Chris Dillon | Sep 5, 1999 12:01 am |
| Subject: | Re: Odd idea | |
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| From: | Mike Smith (mi...@smith.net.au) | |
| Date: | Sep 3, 1999 3:44:04 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-small | |
BOOTP is not necessarily sufficient. BOOTP does not allow truly dynamic configuration, or at least not with the ISC dhcpd.
Remember we are talking about the loader here, for net booting. Not for after you've booted. When net booting you need to tell the loader the kernel's name and the path to / . I could be wrong, but I think you usually would not want these dolled out randomly. For example:
You don't want them handed out randomly, no, but conversely you (probably ) want the same address to be used by the system once it's up and running. At least in theory if the loader is able to pull the DHCP config off, it can pass the relevant lease details on to the kernel, which can be used to seed dhclient.
It's all a bit vague at the moment, and there's plenty of room to change things around as the code matures. For now, suffice to say that I expect to add DHCP if for no other reason than that's all that PXE supports.
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