Hans-Peter Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi Shane,
>
> Difference: 181 Bytes (padding ignored)
>
> The whole module takes about 9K, compared to dhcp in initrd, which
> takes a few hundred K! Hmm.
And the kinit from the klibc package (A static executable that
does everything the kernel
Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
On Thursday 03 February 2005 05:47, Shane Hathaway wrote:
The attached patch enhances the kernel's DHCP client support (in
net/ipv4/ipconfig.c) to set the interface MTU if provided by the
DHCP server. Without this patch, it's difficult to netboot on a
network that uses jumb
On Friday 04 February 2005 19:22, Richard A Nelson wrote:
>
> What will this code do at the (increasingly common) misconfigured
> sites - many places (hotels, airports, etc) return a MTU of 64...
> to which the DHCP3 client faithfully attempts to set, only to
> receive:
> SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
> On Thursday 03 February 2005 05:47, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> > The attached patch enhances the kernel's DHCP client support (in
> > net/ipv4/ipconfig.c) to set the interface MTU if provided by the
> > DHCP server. Without this patch, it's difficult to
Hi Shane,
On Thursday 03 February 2005 05:47, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> The attached patch enhances the kernel's DHCP client support (in
> net/ipv4/ipconfig.c) to set the interface MTU if provided by the
> DHCP server. Without this patch, it's difficult to netboot on a
> network that uses jumbo fram
On Thursday 03 February 2005 06:47, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> The attached patch enhances the kernel's DHCP client support (in
> net/ipv4/ipconfig.c) to set the interface MTU if provided by the DHCP server.
>
> Without this patch, it's difficult to netboot on a network that uses jumbo
> frames.
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author:Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Have you looked at using initramfs and running the DHCP client in
> user space? You'll get a lot more freedom that way.
>
Note that the klibc distribution already contains a working
Herbert Xu wrote:
Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The attached patch enhances the kernel's DHCP client support (in
net/ipv4/ipconfig.c) to set the interface MTU if provided by the DHCP server.
Without this patch, it's difficult to netboot on a network that uses jumbo
frames. The patc
Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The attached patch enhances the kernel's DHCP client support (in
> net/ipv4/ipconfig.c) to set the interface MTU if provided by the DHCP server.
>
> Without this patch, it's difficult to netboot on a network that uses jumbo
> frames. The patch is
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