Re: FQDNs for netbooted hosts via DHCP?

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 15/07/2018 23:54, John D. Baker wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, Roy Marples wrote:
>
> > But have we considered an alternative? The in kernel DHCP client as
> > I see it is just to handle network booting yes? Once userland is
> > netmounted, dhcpcd can then take over? If so, does the kernel DHCP
>
> This seems to be a condition unique to x86 platforms, that one can
> re-configure the network interface with 'dhcpcd' (and in the past,
> 'dhclient') on a netbooted host.  All the non-x86 platforms I've tried
> this with hang (NFS error 69) when the network interface is reconfigured.
>
> Possibly arrange for 'dhcpcd' to not touch the interface, but just
> gather and set up the ancillary information requested/provided.

As of dhcpcd-7 at least that should no longer be the case.
So -current and -8, dhcpcd won't touch pre-existing routes if it doesn't 
need to.

I don't recall you saying what NetBSD or dhcpcd version you were using.

Roy