From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure MTU via kernel DHCP
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 21:14:52 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ctu48c$ovm$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1CwfQK-00011a-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au
Followup to: <E1CwfQK-00011a-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
By author: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Have you looked at using initramfs and running the DHCP client in
> user space? You'll get a lot more freedom that way.
>
Note that the klibc distribution already contains a working dhcp
client. The only thing missing is just "putting the backwards into
backwards compatible", i.e. handling *all* the (sometimes weird)
kernel behaviours for full compatibility.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-03 21:15 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
2005-02-03 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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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