Re: PATCH: boot-time DHCP

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
11 Dec 1999 18:07:47 +0100


chip@valinux.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:

> 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..

Doing it by a small user mode program in a initrd is much more sane.
Near all modern distributions rely on initrd now anyways.

BTW, when sending linux kernel patches always use diff -u

-Andi

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