Hello Frans, On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Frans Pop <[email protected]> wrote: > I've just tried running the SVN version of netcfg which includes the > following change: > [ Otavio Salvador ] > * Add support for udhcpc. This was based on Luk Claes but changed to > avoid dropping support for dhclient, dhclient3 and pump for now. > > I built a netboot image without dhcp3-udeb to test udhcpc, but it failed > miserably as it did not manage to get a lease during netcfg. > How well was this tested?
It was a long time since I last looked at it; I've looked again and I found that the script was not being set as executable. I've fixed it for next busybox' upload. > It did work when run from a debug shell: > # ip link set up dev eth0 > # udhcpd > udhcpd (v1.14.2) started > Sending discover... > Sending select for 10.19.66.61 > Lease of 10.19.66.61 obtained, lease time 7200 It works now inside of the installer. > Another issue is that I could not find a lease file anywhere, which makes > troubleshooting network issues more difficult. Now it has one. /var/lib/udhcp/udhcpc.leases. > It also means that using udhcpd would break setting a preseed file from the > DHCP server config [1]. And we have had bug reports in the past when that > no longer worked. I've looked at busybox' code and netcfg and I've fixed the missing things that are need for this support (we need to pass bootfile param > As there was no lease file I could not verify if the "filename" option was > even included in the lease or not. I've changed upcoming busybox' script to write a leases file and changed preseed to use it. It should work fine. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
