Guten Morgen Michael, On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 00:45 +0100, Michael Prokop wrote: > * Stephan Adig <[email protected]> [Tue Jan 11, 2011 at 01:07:25PM +0100]: > > [...] > > > And then came the problem...strangely klibcs ipconfig wasn't able to > > reliable do dhcp requests inside the initramfs. > > As the first PXE DHCP/BOOTP request was working and we are using the > > BOOTIF parameter of pxelinux to catch exactly that interface, we were > > sure that our DHCP infrastructure is working (we are doing some dhcp > > relay configs inside our network). > > [...] > > > I'm thinking, that udhcpc is a better solution for dhcp requests inside > > (live) initramfs and we should try to go that way. > > > I don't know what it needs to start the discussion with initramfs > > upstream (or the linux plumbers) but we could also create a separate fai > > initramfs overlay (just like the live one). > > > What do you think? > > The udhcpc solution is definitely interesting. With my > initramfs-tools co-maintainer hat on and as discussed on IRC already > it would be great if you could provide a patch against > initramfs-tools.
I will...when I'm awake next week ;) As said, we are redeploying our complete DC with DC² / FAI / Puppet to Ubuntu Lucid...and I'm already on 36 hours without sleep. > > And it would be great if you could file a bug against klibc-utils's > ipconfig as well (and if it's just that other people are aware of > this issue or if we need it for argumenting why udhcpc might be > necessary at all). Trying. > > The udhcpc fix is not an option for squeeze at this time anymore, as > you might be well aware of. And the initramfs overlay shouldn't be > our prefered way to integrate this feature, instead let's try to > come up with a clean solution that can be integrated in mainline > initramfs-tools. If that's really not an option at all we can still > think about a special overlay. No, not for squeeze..and I'm wondering if Ubuntu will take the patch as well...but to overcome the problems with a buggy klibc ipconfig tool it's worth to try to push this change. I mean, everything which replaces ipconfig is much better then ipconfig...udhcpc is just something I knew about and which works here right now very stable. Regards, \sh -- Stephan '\sh' Hermann SysAdmin / Ubuntu Developer xmpp: [email protected]
