aux/listen lacks a -x, but in your /cfg/$sysname/cpustart you could do
something like:
@{
rfork n
bind '#I1' /net
aux/listen -q
}
Bit of a workaround, but it should work. Maybe a discussion can be had about
doing this better.
On 4/8/25 15:43, Paul Lalonde wrote:
> Ok, on to my next problem: Though I can get dhcpd and tftpd to serve happily
> from /net.alt, apparently I can't get aux/listen to do so.
>
> When my terminal tries to dial tcp!192.168.1.2!17020 I get a connection
> refused. This is the same IP that's serving dhcp and tftp.
> How do I get aux/listen to pay attention there? It's listening correctly on
> my other interface, where drawterm connects quite happily.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Paul
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM Kurt H Maier via 9fans <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 08:20:20AM +0200, [email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 03:53:03PM -0700, Paul Lalonde wrote:
> > > It's easy enough to add /net.alt's setup into the namespace being
> > > constructed - there's a few places to do so.
> > > But this misses that pulling the network stack from the new namespace
> > > completely bypasses every namespace composition tool used in the rest
> of
> > > Plan9.
> > > Ron's warning on the safety of the tftp protocol is sensible.
> Frankly,
> > > that argues for dumping tftp from the distro entirely ;-)
> > > The rest of the world has moved on to https service for these files.
> >
> > Even for network booting (PXE)?
>
> Here is the UEFI info for HTTP boot:
>
> https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.11/24_Network_Protocols_SNP_PXE_BIS.html#http-boot
>
> <https://uefi.org/specs/UEFI/2.11/24_Network_Protocols_SNP_PXE_BIS.html#http-boot>
>
> Most serious computer manufacturers support this by now; the ARM SBC
> jungle is, as usual, a crap shoot. The past decade in the datacenter
> has been the long slow battle to move from ipmi and pxe to redfish and
> httpboot.
>
> Sadly, a lot of the networking side is still PXE-based, but progress is
> happening even there.
>
> khm
>
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