On Sat, 12 May 2007 09:00:34 -0400 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 12 May 2007, Carsten Lohrke wrote: > > Does it matter that the DUID-LLT isn't stored when starting from a > > Live-CD? I don't see why there is the need for a use flag for this > > functionality, when it doesn't imply a new dependency. > > the concern was to have a way to provide "nice" clients for use on > volatile systems (netboot/livecd/etc...) > > everytime you'd boot up such a system and do dhcp, you'd create a new > unique id and the server would store it ... this isnt very nice to > the server admin who now has a set of unique ids that will never be > utilized again but by default would maintain all of them > -mike Not only that, but boot of the same computer using a CD 200 times and you use up 200 leases. Nice DOS attack I'd like to avoid really :) I've thought long and hard about it and I think a compile time option is best here. You can still disable the usage of DUID by null arg to the -I option, but many users launch dhcpcd by hand on the live cds. Thanks Roy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
