Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263866AbTETS1C (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 14:27:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263867AbTETS1C (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 14:27:02 -0400 Received: from 66-122-194-202.ded.pacbell.net ([66.122.194.202]:38567 "HELO mail.keyresearch.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263866AbTETS1B (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2003 14:27:01 -0400 Subject: Re: DHCP From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" To: root@chaos.analogic.com Cc: Gerald Stuhrberg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <200305191821.h4JILlE12026@adam.yggdrasil.com> <1053398767.22400.8.camel@localhost> <1053449334.7780.25.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1053455998.7780.35.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 20 May 2003 11:39:58 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 780 Lines: 20 On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 10:19, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Isn't it that there are 'helper' functions in the kernel that are > not needed and a user-space DHCP server already works and is > available? The original question was about an in-kernel DHCP client, which exists in the form of net/ipv4/ipconfig.c. The vague plan of record is to remove it from the kernel some time early in the 2.6 era, and replace it with a userspace ipconfig implementation that runs in initramfs. Note the complete lack of mention of DHCP servers.