From: Shane Hathaway <shane@hathawaymix.org>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure MTU via kernel DHCP
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:57:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <420257ED.3020002@hathawaymix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CwfQK-00011a-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
Herbert Xu wrote:
> Shane Hathaway <shane@hathawaymix.org> 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 based on 2.6.10, but I'll update it to the latest
>>testing kernel if that would expedite its inclusion in the kernel.
>
>
> Have you looked at using initramfs and running the DHCP client in
> user space? You'll get a lot more freedom that way.
Hey, that's a good idea. I'll explore it.
Shane
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-03 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-03 4:47 [PATCH] Configure MTU via kernel DHCP Shane Hathaway
2005-02-03 11:45 ` Herbert Xu
2005-02-03 16:57 ` Shane Hathaway [this message]
2005-02-03 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-02-04 8:06 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-02-04 16:55 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2005-02-04 18:22 ` Richard A Nelson
2005-02-04 19:54 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2005-02-04 20:02 ` Shane Hathaway
2005-02-05 23:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
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