Re: [Ltsp-developer] Use of dhclient during boot process

[Skip G. <sg...@at...>]

On Tuesday 16 July 2002 09:17, jam@McQuil.Com wrote:
> Skip,
>
> I disagree with the proposal to NOT run dhclient.
>
> It is my understanding that the workstations using
> DHCP are required to pay attention to the lease they
> are given, and when the lease expires, they are supposed
> to renew the lease.  This is part of being a good network
> citizen.
Jim,

That's the reason I posted this. I understand your point,=20
but given the fact that the "lease" is tied to the MAC=20
address, and given that you can't restart the network=20
without losing your root filesystem, I wonder what the=20
point is.

My thought for fixing this would be something similar to the=20
dhcpcd -T option. Perhaps I can hack dhcpcd so it doesn't=20
take down the network.

--Skip