Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Dec 1999 21:46:32 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: boot-time DHCP |
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Hi!
> > I was surprised to find that the plug-and-play network configuration > > supports BOOTP and RARP(?!) but not DHCP. So I added it myself. > > I think the reason is that the kernel bootp code is really obsolete. > It will probably go the same way as kernel rarpd sometime in the > future..
Please don't. It is important for diskless clients. On sun4, it is easy to load kernel (their bios can do that) but I don't think same is possible with initrd.
Pavel -- I'm really pavel@ucw.cz. Look at http://195.113.31.123/~pavel. Pavel Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!
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