Re: bootp, dhcp, etc
Aaron Van Couwenberghe <avancouw@calpoly.edu> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 02:25:04AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > I'm curious what our bootp/dhcp support strategy is...
> >
> > There seems to be a number of competeing pacakges, such as pump,
> > dhcp_client, etc. I'm not sure which we should pick.
> >
> > Are there any bootp/dhcp experts here? Should I cry out for some on
> > Debian-devel?
>
> dhcp-client would be a great one to use on the boot-floppies, as it supports
> both bootp and dhcp. It also works pretty much automatically in both cases.
> However, it's over 100 kbytes, so it's ruled out unless someone can strip
> it way down.
I have about 20-40 MB free on the demo-fs, so a few KB aren´t a
problem, but booting the demo-fs via network won´t be possible
automatically with that size.
> Pump doesn't work here. too bad. It's only 29k.
>
> dhcpcd and bootpc together are ~34k. It seems to me we could have a simple
> script that tries running both bootpc and then dhcpcd. Whichever ends up
> yielding a workable address wins a link in /etc/rc2.d.
What libs do they need or are the 34 K as static binaries?
> Of course, if redhat's tool worked, that would be better ;).
May the Source be with you.
Goswin
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