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Re: taking on dhcp as a related issue was Re: Private Sean Perry



On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 03:39:08PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> 
> On 12-Nov-99 Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com> writes:
> > 
> >> PCMCIA has a setting "USE_DHCP=y".  If this is on, it tries all of:
> >> 
> >> dhclient
> >> dhcpcd
> >> pump
> >> 
> >> to get a dhcp address
> > 
> > And which of these three do you think is most appropriate for 
> > boot-floppies rescue disk?
> > 
> 
> I am unsure.  Will look at each of these and see what we can use.
> 
> As an aside, Chip Salzenberg is hacking a quick and dirty dhcp client within
> the kernel (-:

I musta missed this on linux-kernel, I assume this is part of the kernel
autoconfiguration support?  It'll be nice to have dhcp in addition to rarp
and bootp.

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Matt Porter
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