Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262435AbVBCL6t (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:58:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262460AbVBCLtu (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:49:50 -0500 Received: from arnor.apana.org.au ([203.14.152.115]:24325 "EHLO arnor.apana.org.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262634AbVBCLpw (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:45:52 -0500 From: Herbert Xu To: shane@hathawaymix.org (Shane Hathaway) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure MTU via kernel DHCP Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Organization: Core In-Reply-To: <200502022148.00045.shane@hathawaymix.org> X-Newsgroups: apana.lists.os.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.7.4-20040225 ("Benbecula") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.27-hx-1-686-smp (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:45:24 +1100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1003 Lines: 22 Shane Hathaway wrote: > > The attached patch enhances the kernel's DHCP client support (in > net/ipv4/ipconfig.c) to set the interface MTU if provided by the DHCP server. > Without this patch, it's difficult to netboot on a network that uses jumbo > frames. The patch is based on 2.6.10, but I'll update it to the latest > testing kernel if that would expedite its inclusion in the kernel. Have you looked at using initramfs and running the DHCP client in user space? You'll get a lot more freedom that way. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/