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Re: FQDNs for netbooted hosts via DHCP?



On 16/07/2018 01:27, John D. Baker wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, Roy Marples wrote:

On 15/07/2018 23:54, John D. Baker wrote:

Possibly arrange for 'dhcpcd' to not touch the interface, but just
gather and set up the ancillary information requested/provided.

As of dhcpcd-7 at least that should no longer be the case.  So -current
and -8, dhcpcd won't touch pre-existing routes if it doesn't need to.

I don't recall you saying what NetBSD or dhcpcd version you were using.

All hosts that can netboot run -current as such.  All but a dwindling
few run -8 from local disk.  Some also have -8 via netboot/NFS and a
couple still have -6 on NFS.  Anything not yet running -8 likely has
-7 until I can get around to updating it.

sparc is the most frequently used non-x86 platform.  evbarm-earmv7hf
(-8), evbmips-mips64el, macppc, and sparc64 (all -current) make appearances
from time to time.  There are a few others about (various m68k boxen
and one PReP), but arranging for them to run is a lot of work right now.

I will have to arrange to try one of the non-x86en with 'dhcpcd' under
netboot/NFS conditions.  It's been a long time since I tried and the
last time things behaved as I described.

Sadly, all my machines are x86 based. I have an ERLITE mips router where I also run dhcpcd, and it doesn't stamp on routes there either, so I'm pretty sure this isn't an arch issue ... but I could be wrong.

Roy


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