Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Dec 1999 08:58:13 -0800 | From | Chip Salzenberg <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: boot-time DHCP |
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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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