From: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
To: Thierry <thierry.bultel@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suggested patch: Sending the FQDN when booting via DHCP
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:16:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48C73C15.2000103@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C6B3DA.3040904@wanadoo.fr>
Thierry wrote:
> [re-sent without HTML encoding, and to the right aliases ...]
>
> Hi all,
>
> the following patch can be useful, in order to let the DHCP server
> accordingly update the DNS, when booting via DHCP.
>
> This can be useful for 2 reasons:
> 1) on small systems, the embedded filesystem may even not have udhcpd
> 2) when booting nfsroot, the nfs server does not like when udhcpd in
> invoked, even when requested the same IP address.
>
> Here is the patch, for 2.6.27-rc5. (Notice that it is the very first
> time I deliver a patch for Linux, and I may
> have missed some points on the procedure, if it is the case I apologize
> for that). What do you think about it ?
>
> Any ideas or comments are welcome.
This should probably be a kernel command-line option, rather than a static
config option.
-- Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-10 3:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-09 17:35 Suggested patch: Sending the FQDN when booting via DHCP Thierry
2008-09-10 3:16 ` Chris Snook [this message]
2008-09-10 22:35 ` David Miller
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