Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 08:38:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: Kamil Czekirda <kczekirda@freebsd.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@freebsd.org>, Steven Hartland <smh@freebsd.org>, Toomas Soome <tsoome@freebsd.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Mariusz Zaborski <oshogbo@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r314948 - in head: lib/libstand sys/boot/i386/libi386 Message-ID: <201705281538.v4SFcxJ7018338@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <af46d4a1-02ca-ca27-657f-2d111b246077@FreeBSD.org>
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> On 28/05/2017 01:09, Kamil Czekirda wrote: > > In initial revision I noticed, that I'm not sure it should be default behavior. > > In a lot of installations pxeloader can base on the cache and doesn't require > > second, full request with the same answer. In that situation we can switch off > > bootp() and I think it would be nice to have this switch and give them to users. > > Flag during compilation is sensible. > > > > In very simple and popular case we have chain with four requests for the same > > information (!): > > PXE (NIC) -> iPXE -> pxeloader -> dhclient > > and it's possible to switch off request from iPXE and pxeloader without breaking > > boot process. > > Well, the information given to PXE/NIC and iPXE is not exactly the same as > bootfile must differ. Also, a nit: as far as I know, it's currently impossible > to run dhclient on a network booted _diskless_ system. I dont think that is actually true. Infact dont we need to run dhclient on a diskless client if we intend to keep our dhcp lease beyond the initial issue time period, ie renewal ever X minutes? > So, yeah, in some setups we can shave off a request from pxeboot and it probably > makes sense to have that option. > > -- > Andriy Gapon > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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