Re: diskless system's limited dhcp support

2020-09-07 Thread Dan Ritter
Ross Boylan wrote: > On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 3:37 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > The usual way is: > > > > 1. DNS record tied to a static IP address > > 2. IP address handed out by DHCP server based on MAC address of > >the interface > > > > This is especially normal when the root is served by

Re: diskless system's limited dhcp support

2020-09-06 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 3:37 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > I have a buster system with no disk, started by PXE boot and using NFS > root. > > It appears (details below) that dhcp setup is via ipconfig in one of the > > initrd scripts (configure_networking() in the "functions" scrip

Re: diskless system's limited dhcp support

2020-09-06 Thread Dan Ritter
Ross Boylan wrote: > I have a buster system with no disk, started by PXE boot and using NFS root. > It appears (details below) that dhcp setup is via ipconfig in one of the > initrd scripts (configure_networking() in the "functions" script), with > ipconfig coming from klibc. So fiddling with the

diskless system's limited dhcp support

2020-09-06 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a buster system with no disk, started by PXE boot and using NFS root. It appears (details below) that dhcp setup is via ipconfig in one of the initrd scripts (configure_networking() in the "functions" script), with ipconfig coming from klibc. So fiddling with the settings in dhclient.conf o