On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:26:12AM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:43:01PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Andrew Pollock wrote: > > > Okay. I've had a preliminary play with ipconfig over the weekend. Seems > > > relatively straightforward to slot it into netcfg's dhcp.c. What I need to > > > understand is the necessity to set a vendor-class-identifier attribute in > > > with the request, is this a nicety or a need-to-have? ipconfig won't do > > > it. > > > > It enables useful abilities like setting the appropriate default mirror > > for all installs to a network. It's a new feature since sarge, so not > > something a lot of people are using yet but very potentially powerful > > and useful for larger networks. > > Yes, I read a related bug report when I was searching for this thread in my > email, looks good. > > > Anyway, "good" news: The recent busybox change that dropped modutils > > makes the i386 root floppy too large, triggering a lot of reorganisation > > (and degraded functionality), after which we have enough free space on > > there for the dhcp 3 client, so turn it back on and we can look at > > including it. > > Done. Next upload, hopefully by the weekend at the latest, will include > dhcp3-client-udeb again. >
So said upload finally made it out of NEW the other day... I note in another thread Gert's got a patch that extends the functionality of ipconfig. regards Andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
