Re: Make ipconfig.c work as a loadable module.

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 09:07:11AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> With a good bootloader it does not much how big your initrd is.  I
> totally agree that small is good and important.  At the same time
> ipconfig.c is wrong.  It is great during development and on systems
> with a single NIC.  But the hard coded policies can be bad for
> production systems.  Not that hard coded policies are bad in general
> just the kernel is the wrong place to put them.

With multi-NIC systems, it is perfectly possible to use ipconfig.c with
one specific interface.

/*
 *  Decode any IP configuration options in the "ip=" or "nfsaddrs=" kernel
 *  command line parameter. It consists of option fields separated by colons in
 *  the following order:
 *
 *  <client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<host name>:<device>:<PROTO>
 *
 *  Any of the fields can be empty which means to use a default value:
 *      <client-ip>     - address given by BOOTP or RARP
 *      <server-ip>     - address of host returning BOOTP or RARP packet
 *      <gw-ip>         - none, or the address returned by BOOTP
 *      <netmask>       - automatically determined from <client-ip>, or the
 *                        one returned by BOOTP
 *      <host name>     - <client-ip> in ASCII notation, or the name returned
 *                        by BOOTP
 *      <device>        - use all available devices
 *      <PROTO>:
 *         off|none         - don't do autoconfig at all (DEFAULT)
 *         on|any           - use any configured protocol
 *         dhcp|bootp|rarp  - use only the specified protocol
 *         both             - use both BOOTP and RARP (not DHCP)
 */

ip=:::::eth0:dhcp

(I haven't actually tried this though.)

However, how do you configure your ramdisk via the boot loader to use
a specific NIC / mount a specific filesystem, etc?

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