On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 06:30:22PM -0400, Ralph Siemsen wrote: > Geert Stappers wrote: > > > But netwinder has not IP_PNP support > > and bast has IP_PNP_RARP enable. > > I can't speak for "bast" as I have never heard of it. But on netwinder > the only reason this is disabled is because the firmware offers similar > functionality already, and it seems silly to do two successive DHCP > requsts/offer cycles within a few seconds of each other. There is a bit > more flexibility in the firmware, in that you can enable portions of the > DHCP server's info to be used, and override other parts. Okay, now I see why there is no CONFIG_IP_PNP in the kernel for Netwinder. > > But you can certainly enable this feature in your kernel if you like. (-: there is no reason the to enable it... I have been reading the netwinder firmware howto[1] There are no traces of RARP support and that is good, RARP is obsoleted by BOOTP and DHCP. We are one step closer to deleting RARP from debian-installer-manual for ARM. Hoping from an update from the BAST users. > > -Ralph Cheers Geert Stappers [1] http://www.netwinder.org/howto/Firmware-HOWTO-4.html P.S. Keep 250025@bugs.debian.org CC-ed
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