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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


  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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