[gentoo-dev] udhcp ebuild... please testy

[gentoo-dev] udhcp ebuild... please testy

[christoph]

New ebuild for a dhcp package. Recommended by Jon Nelson.

This is the right(tm) way of doing dhcp. dhcp events trigger scripts. The
current dhcpcd package is not doing that so that we have a braindead
implementation of dhcp right now:

Current situatiom:
If a dhcp server is not available then
the boot process hangs and then timeouts and proceeds without networking.
If I now fix the dhcp server then gentoo will not recognize that an IP is
now available. Reboot is necessary to activate dhcp again.

udhcp sits in the background and will configure networking when an IP
becomes available. No hangs on boot. Integration with boot up scripts not
yet done.

Re: [gentoo-dev] udhcp ebuild... please testy

[Troy Dack]

On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 17:11, christoph@lameter.com wrote:
> New ebuild for a dhcp package. Recommended by Jon Nelson.
> 
> This is the right(tm) way of doing dhcp. dhcp events trigger scripts. The
> current dhcpcd package is not doing that so that we have a braindead
> implementation of dhcp right now:
> 
> Current situatiom:
> If a dhcp server is not available then
> the boot process hangs and then timeouts and proceeds without networking.
> If I now fix the dhcp server then gentoo will not recognize that an IP is
> now available. Reboot is necessary to activate dhcp again.

Why not just restart the interface? eg:

/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

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Re: [gentoo-dev] udhcp ebuild... please testy

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Saturday 03 August 2002 15:36, Troy Dack wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 17:11, christoph@lameter.com wrote:
> > New ebuild for a dhcp package. Recommended by Jon Nelson.
> >
> > This is the right(tm) way of doing dhcp. dhcp events trigger scripts. The
> > current dhcpcd package is not doing that so that we have a braindead
> > implementation of dhcp right now:
> >
> > Current situatiom:
> > If a dhcp server is not available then
> > the boot process hangs and then timeouts and proceeds without networking.
> > If I now fix the dhcp server then gentoo will not recognize that an IP is
> > now available. Reboot is necessary to activate dhcp again.
>
> Why not just restart the interface? eg:
>
> /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

I myself wrote a hack that gets the old ip-address from the cache and 
temporary installs it as the ip-address (my machine has a "static" address, 
but lately the cable network has been unstable). This way the machine will 
function well in case of network problems. Maybe such an "optional" hack 
could also be included in the boot scripts of udhcp.

Paul

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