Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Roy Marples <roy@×××××××.name>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] avahi
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:29:49
Message-Id: 200802290829.47089.roy@marples.name
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] avahi by Peter Stuge
1 On Thursday 28 February 2008 18:23:21 Peter Stuge wrote:
2 > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:54:23AM -0500, wireless wrote:
3 > > it runs some tests and figures out how to auto configure the ip,
4 > > dns resolver(mDNS) and possible default routing to the internet
5 >
6 > Will avahi replace DHCP like that?
7
8 No.
9
10 Instead DHCP clients should provide a zeroconf solution.
11 dhcpcd-3.1 [1] and higher do and works fine in an embedded environment. It's a
12 little more bloaty than udhcpc, but it's also a lot more feature rich.
13
14 Thanks
15
16 Roy
17
18 [1] http://roy.marples.name/dhcpcd
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