disk-less and ifcfg-eth0 for dhscp

[hong zhang]

Simon,

No. No storage is involved. Only using two PCs back to
back connection. 

I simply want to see if my e1000 driver could get IP
address through dhcp when CONFIG_IP_PNP=y in 2.4
kernel. This is my purpose. How to implement it?

----henry

--- Simon Hobson <dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:

> hong zhang wrote:
> 
> >Would you please tell me that contents of
> dhcpd.conf
> >for regular dhcp is same as disk less dhcp in dhcp
> >server?
> >
> >I want to set up linux disk less dhcp in both dhcp
> >server and client sides and want to make sure it is
> >pure disk less dhcp (not related to ifcfg-eth#).
> 
> The server doesn't care about what is in any of your
> network config 
> files, only what it finds configured on the
> interfaces.
> 
> So what are you using for storage on this diskless
> server ? The 
> reason for asking is that it is not possible to run
> an RFC-compliant 
> server without persistent storage, and with the ISC
> server that means 
> disk (or something that looks like disk). The server
> won't run if it 
> can't write (and re-write) the leases file, and it
> is not RFC 
> compliant if that file is not persistent across
> restarts, reboots, 
> and power offs..
> 
> 



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