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Bug#509077: initramfs-tools: support alternate DHCP port and DHCP vendor-class-identifier



On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 18:43 +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Jun 2010, Michael Prokop wrote:
> 
> > * Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+debianbugs@freegeek.org> [Mit Dez 17, 2008 at 07:01:51 -0800]:
> > 
> > > please consider the attached patch, which adds boot prompt parameters for two
> > > of ipconfig's commandline options in the configure_networking function:
> > 
> > >   - using an alternate DHCP port (dhcpport=NNN, ipconfig -p NNN)
> > >   - specifying the vendor-class-identifier (dhcpvci=XXX, ipconfig -i XXX)
> > 
> > > supporting these options gives additional flexibility in distinguishing thin
> > > clients from conventional workstations in a mixed network.
> > 
> > Sorry that no one took care of your bugreport for so long, Vagrant.
> > Patch looks fine to me.
> > 
> > maks, any objections against inclusion of the patches?
> 
> I had been dragging that patch as I do not like to add to many
> bootparams that are outside of documented upstream linux-2.6 handling
> and thus initramfs-tools specific. waited to see if a second voice
> would raise..
> 
> I do not see so much the point of setting ipconfig vendor class id.
> why would that be needed for booting?

It would be used for selecting the boot image.

> the alternate DHCP port looks indeed more interesting, but no idea
> how common that is in the wild? and if there is not a place in the
> ip= monster bootparam?

Using an alternate DHCP port sounds pretty crazy.

Another possibility is to configure the switch(es) to put the thin
clients on a separate VLAN.  But I suppose people also want to use cheap
switches with no VLAN support.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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