On 11-Jan-1999, at around 10:46, Martin Mares wrote:
] Hello,
]
] > However, a new problem arises. The BOOTP packet isn't honoured by the
] > DHCP server unless the hardware address is assigned an IP in the
] > DHCP configuration file. I've quickly modified the BOOTP config
] > area to include the option 'DHCPDISCOVER'.
] >
] > I dont' know if this will break bootp or not. Is DHCP significantly
] > different?
]
] When you send DHCPDISCOVER, you promise you'll be able to handle
] full DHCP protocol, including "address lease refresh" packets.
I kind of figured that. For the our purposes linux will only
be up for 10 - 20mins. (It's being used as a light weight NT
installer - The NT partition gets ripped off an NFS server
and dd'd onto a harddisk).
] > Finally, as the DHCPOFFER packet can contain a lot of useful information
] > I was thinking it would be neat to have a 'dhcp' directory somewhere
] > in /proc. Being able to pull out information such as time servers,
] > name servers etc from the offer packet would be useful, especially
] > after (or during the later) boot stage(s). Thoughts? Comments?
]
] I was already thinking of adding a half-kernel/half-user DHCP support
] (probably with passing options via /proc), but it's not a 2.2.0 project.
Doesn't mean work can't start! :) ... I think this would be
an excellent project ... Where I work, we are moving away
from static IP addresses and pushing _almost_ everything(*) into
DHCP. Even permanent IP addresses will be managed by DHCP.
This means that (virtually) every single workstation (be
it linux/nt/95) will have a uniform network configuration.
Very useful when the field guys (sometimes) don't have much
of a clue.
(*) Except network hardware and the _big_ servers.
] Have a nice fortnight
] --
] Martin `MJ' Mares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
] Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
] "And God said: E = 1/2mv^2 - Ze^2/r ...and there *WAS* light!"
-Greg
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