Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: John Davis <zhen@g.o>
To: wolf31o2@g.o
Cc: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] LiveCDs and DHCP
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 20:49:20
Message-Id: 1085690962.18176.108.camel@woot.uberdavis.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-releng] LiveCDs and DHCP by Chris Gianelloni
1 On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 16:46, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
2 > On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 13:04, Aron Griffis wrote:
3 > > This is my favorite solution. Running dhcpcd on eth0 satisfies 90% of
4 > > the users out there. For the rest, the command-line is
5 > >
6 > > dhcpcd eth1
7 > >
8 > > That's not really much to ask ;-)
9 >
10 > But simply putting:
11 > iface_eth1=dhcp
12 > iface_eth2=dhcp
13 >
14 > in /etc/conf.d/net on the livecd and *touching NOTHING ELSE*
15 > accomplishes what I want (thanks to hotplug) *without ANY PAUSE* unless
16 > the interface exists.
17 >
18 > How could we not want that? *grin*
19
20 I don't want to assume the user's specific needs ;) Leave it to the
21 docs. If the user is advanced enough to use 2 nics, they can run dhcpcd
22 on it.
23
24 Cheers,
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26 John Davis
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Re: [gentoo-releng] LiveCDs and DHCP Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>