Re: dhcp3-client and D-I
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:14:25AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
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> Okay. I've had a preliminary play with ipconfig over the weekend. Seems
> relatively straightforward to slot it into netcfg's dhcp.c. What I need to
> understand is the necessity to set a vendor-class-identifier attribute in
> with the request, is this a nicety or a need-to-have? ipconfig won't do it.
>
> The other thing that ipconfig doesn't currently do is send the hostname with
> the request, which is an optional feature for some people on cable. That's
> potentially fixable though, as one of the ways of invoking ipconfig includes
> a hostname.
>
> I've built a udeb from ipconfig, and twiddled with netcfg enough to test it
> out, I've just been having some problems rebuilding d-i, but I'll try again
> during the week.
Is the source of the ipconfig udeb public available? If yes: Where?
> regards
>
> Andrew
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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