retitle 646137 add script to handle dhcp-client when netbooting reassign 646137 live-config severity 646137 important thanks
thank you for you very detailed bug report, i wish every bug report would as good this. On 10/21/2011 07:21 PM, Robert Euhus wrote: > I am using a debian live system which is started via netboot. [...] > When looking at the network traffic one can see that the DHCP lease is > never renewed. > Proposed solution: > Since the information about which interface is started with dhcp is already > made > available in the final root of the running system (/var/log/netboot.config and > /var/log/live.log) this information could be used to start a dhclient on this > interface later in the boot process. This still seems a bit like a hack since > the proper solution would imho require ipconfig to report the lease time, then > construct a proper /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases file and only start dhclient > after that. right, however, in the absent of a fixed ipconfig, we should still add this workaround as you propose, otherwise netboot would be in such cases simply broken. > I also don't know what would be the best place to start the dhclient from. > Maybe live-config? yes, live-config. unrelated to that: currently, the initial network config (in non-netboot situations) is done by live-boot-initramfs'es 23networking live-bottom script. this at some point needs to go to live-config too. or in other words: adding above hack is not that bad as most of the things in there would be needed once 23networking is moved from live-boot to live-config anyway. patches for live-config more than welcome, i'm retiteling/reassign the bug to live-config. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
