Re: hardcoded IP-address vs DHCP client in odccm (also hal-dccm?)

[Guido D. <gu...@jc...>]

Mark Ellis wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 10:57 +0000, John Carr wrote:
>> > OK, I have to agree that dhclient is quite within any distro core yes.
>> But
>> > one other thing mentioned was a dbus controlled dhclient. The problem
>> with
>> > that is that it is already less core. Furthermore, I can remember that
>> it
>> > was you that was telling sometime that you don't like a lot of daemons
>> > running all of the time (which my guess is this program would be ;) )
>> >
>> > I could look into calling the dhclient, or even adding the dbus
>> > functionality-enabled dhclient to it. I will take a look at this
>> either
>> > this afternoon, or tomorrow.
>> >
>> > I have to say that I like using a d-bus controlled dhclient more than
>> > calling another executable from within the odccm binary.
>>
>> I'm against dhcdbd, if NetworkManager has stopped using it [1] [2]
>> then it must suck...
>>
>
> Interesting, yes I'd say that rules out dhcdbd. Be nice to find out what
> the problem was, and maybe how they now do it.
>
>> The HAL callout parsing dhclient output wouldnt involve a daemon,
>> other than hal-dccm which would be started by it. Directly parsing the
>> output of dhclient from a python HAL callout seems easy, and while its
>> not the nicest thing I think it might be useful for non SynCE devices
>> too. (I'm sure i've seen at least one other non-SynCE device that
>> needs DHCPing before it will work..)
>>
>
> While I think this could still be a pain, I can't see any problem with
> going with it to start with and see how it goes.
>
> This is a hal solution of course. Odccm needs a different solution until
> everyone is happy with hal. As a short term solution in odccm I'd say
> calling dhclient is the easy answer, except for parsing its output using
> C, which would probably result in a dependency on a regex lib.

I don't understand exactly how exactly you are getting the results about
the IP address and the IP address of the DHCP server (i.e. the device)
with hal-dccm. (or what the exact idea behind it is) I don't have that
much experience with HAL related stuff though ;) Could you please explain
in a bit more detail what the idea is for the hal-dccm?

For the odccm case, I will have another look at the whole thing this
afternoon after work.

Guido Diepen


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