On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote: > Hello jam, > > > I asked before, but did not get a single answer on the list: > > Could we make the initrd's dhclient *per default* send some additional > identifier string (like "PXEClient" and "Etherboot-5.0", perhaps > "LTSP-initrd" or so), and require "root-path" to be present? If there > is no root-path, there is no point in dhcp anyway, is it? I think it > would not break, but help with some double-dhcp setups, as dhclient > after these changes could be detected by an "if" case in a dhcp server > (and only dhclient's and etherboot's requests would be honoured, so > that a windoze or router dhcp server would be fine) and dhclient would > only accept dhcp answers from a correctly configured dhcp server (e.g. > no router/windoze boxes, they seem to not send a root-path option per > default)....? I'm not on the developer part of ltsp, so I won't do > this myself to the CVS, but I would like at least to have an opinion > on this. The thread I'm responding to would have been shortened one > question layer if everything behaved as I described - having two dhcp > servers seems always a little tricky.
In LTSP-4, we have switched to dhcpcd, instead of dhclient. I've been told that dhcpcd is much more flexible in terms of cooperating with various dhcp servers. once we get it stabilized a bit, I'll try to look at incorporating the suggestion that you mentioned. > > > Best regards, and "have a nice stay" to JMQ, Thanks, Jim. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net