On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 12:44:01PM -0600, Noah yan wrote: > The inetboot parse bootpath and bootargs and pass most of them to the > kernel, > but not for the static configuration of the network.
Too bad, but understandable. > inetboot network are within subnet, so all needed network config is the ip > and rarp is enough. yet dhcp is generally available so no need to setup > server ( I will see how to force inetboot to use dhcp). > > In general, network configuration of inetboot is not very much platform > dependent and it is a matter of programming to use different features, > either rarp(dhcp)/bootparamd or bootpd or static configuration. I guess parsing the bootpath/bootargs would be the best way for the user to pass that info to inetboot, and since the user need then to pass it to the kernel anyway, the easiest way to not duplicate that information. Friendly, Sven Luther
