Re: DHCP

Bryan O'Sullivan (bos@serpentine.com)
20 May 2003 11:39:58 -0700


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.

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