From: "Pádraig Brady" <P@draigBrady.com>
To: Seewer Philippe <philippe.seewer-omB+W0Dpw2o@public.gmane.org>
Cc: "initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org"
<initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: dracut requires router
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:19:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CAF367D.7030707@draigBrady.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CAF27EF.80301-omB+W0Dpw2o@public.gmane.org>
On 08/10/10 15:17, Seewer Philippe wrote:
> On 10/08/2010 03:59 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> Is it right to die if we can't contact the router?
> Usually yes. Either because the rootserver is behind the router or if
> you supplied routing information it's safe to assume that later you want
> it to work anyway.
Well in my case the router is just needed for browsing the net.
All other services are provided locally.
> But yes, usually. I would have preferred to somehow a subnet check on
> the rootserver to decide what or if to check. But alas, not all netroot
> variants know the ip of their rootserver at that point.
Right, but no need to penalize the common case.
I.E. we can bypass all this if the rootserver is known,
and on the same subnet.
cheers,
Pádraig.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-08 15:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-08 10:20 dracut requires router Pádraig Brady
[not found] ` <4CAEF060.8030701-V8g9lnOeT5ydJdNcDFJN0w@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-08 13:30 ` Seewer Philippe
[not found] ` <4CAF1D02.6060701-omB+W0Dpw2o@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-08 13:59 ` Pádraig Brady
[not found] ` <4CAF23BA.4010605-V8g9lnOeT5ydJdNcDFJN0w@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-08 14:17 ` Seewer Philippe
[not found] ` <4CAF27EF.80301-omB+W0Dpw2o@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-08 15:19 ` Pádraig Brady [this message]
[not found] ` <4CAF367D.7030707-V8g9lnOeT5ydJdNcDFJN0w@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-15 12:05 ` [PATCH] network: don't die if gateway is down and root server is local Pádraig Brady
[not found] ` <4CB84390.5060203-V8g9lnOeT5ydJdNcDFJN0w@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-15 13:43 ` Harald Hoyer
[not found] ` <4CB85A73.6010902-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-15 14:03 ` Pádraig Brady
[not found] ` <4CB85F31.5010207-V8g9lnOeT5ydJdNcDFJN0w@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-28 15:14 ` Harald Hoyer
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