Re: [PATCH] pypxeboot bootloader

[Stephen Childs <Stephen.Childs@cs.tcd.ie>]

Tim Deegan wrote:
> At 16:36 +0000 on 08 Feb (1170952573), Stephen Childs wrote:
>> I've attached a fresh patch that addresses this and the other issues you 
>> raised, Tim.
> 
> Thanks.  That looks much better -- I think we should use mkstemp for the
> config files too, if possible.

OK I will try and have a look at that (or you're welcome to!)

> Is udhcp still actively maintained?  I wonder if we can get the
> mac-address patch in upstream; otherwise we might have to bring the 
> client source into our tree.

I've had no response to a patch I submitted and the last release was in 
2002 so maybe we will have to do that for now.

> The other option (and it may end up being necesary to address Ian's
> point about physical NICs) would be to steal the guest's vif for the
> dhcp'ing, since we know the guest won't be using it yet.  I haven't
> looked in detail at the plumbing of that, though.

That sounds like a better solution in the long-term. Hopefully the 
existing approach already provides enough functionality to be useful to 
people in the short-term though.

Stephen
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