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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure MTU via kernel DHCP
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 21:14:52 +0000 (UTC)
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Followup to:  <E1CwfQK-00011a-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
By author:    Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Have you looked at using initramfs and running the DHCP client in
> user space? You'll get a lot more freedom that way.
> 

Note that the klibc distribution already contains a working dhcp
client.  The only thing missing is just "putting the backwards into
backwards compatible", i.e. handling *all* the (sometimes weird)
kernel behaviours for full compatibility.

	-hpa
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