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.
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